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description: Gravestone of Thrasykles, Thasos
catalogue number: 1127
LSAG reference: 307.65
date: c. 525 to 500 ?
object type: Gravestone
region: AI
sub-region: Ionic Is. (Cen. & N. Aegean)
archaeological context: Thasos
    publications:
IG vol. xii.8 no. 395
Friedlaender, P., Hoffleit, H., Epigrammata no. 157
Pouilloux, Recherches sur l'histoire et les cultes de Thasos vol. 1 (1954) pp. 439
Peek, W., Griechische Versinschriften vol. i pp. 142
CEG no. 157

    archival material:
    local script: Thasos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:35 comments:
Drooping lettering.

Letter forms found in this inscription are listed below. Click on a glyph to browse other inscriptions in which it also appears.
α β γ δ ε Digamma ζ α η Heta θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π M Koppa ρ σ τ υ φ χ ψ ω Sampi punct.

    transcription:

[Θ]ρασυκληως τω
[Π]α̣ωταγαθω
[μ]ε̅τε̅ρ τωδε
[σε̅]μ̣' επωηεσε̣

    translation:

not available