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Thasos
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description: Memorial of Akeratos at Potamia Bay, Thasos
catalogue number: 1129
LSAG reference: 307.67
date: c. 500 to 490 ?
object type: Memorial
region: AI
sub-region: Ionic Is. (Cen. & N. Aegean)
archaeological context: Potamia Bay
    publications:
Tod, JHS vol. 29 (1909) pp. 95 ff
Launey, BCH vol. 58 (1934) pp. 180 f
IG vol. xii.8 no. 683
IG vol. xii suppl. pp. 163 no. 412n
Friedlaender, P., Hoffleit, H., Epigrammata no. 168
Pouilloux, Recherches sur l'histoire et les cultes de Thasos vol. 1 (1954) pp. 439

    archival material:
    local script: Thasos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:73

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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:

metrical layout:
[Α]κηρατω εμι μνημα τω φ[ρασι]ηριδο·
κειμα̣ι δε επ' α̣κρω ναυσ[τ]α[θ]|μω σοτηρ[ι]ων
νηυσιν τε κα[ι] ναυτησιν· αλλα χαιρετε̣
epigraphic layout:
[Α]κηρατω εμι μνημα τω φ[ρασι]ηριδο· κειμα̣ι δε επ' α̣κρω ναυσ[τ]α[θ]-
μω σοτηρ[ι]ων νηυσιν τε κα[ι] ναυτησιν· αλλα χαιρετε̣.

    translation:

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