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browsing: glyph used as "omega" item number: 10 of 11 Thasos back to browse list new search/browse     photographs:     description: Gravestone of Learete, Thasos catalogue number: 1130 LSAG reference: 307.68 date: c. 500 to 490 ? object type: Gravestone region: AI sub-region: Ionic Is. (Cen. & N. Aegean) archaeological context: Thasos     publications: IG vol. xii.8 no. 398 SGDI no. 5457 Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 63 no. 7 Friedlaender, P., Hoffleit, H., Epigrammata no. 60 Pouilloux, Recherches sur l'histoire et les cultes de Thasos vol. 1 (1954) pp. 439 Peek, W., Griechische Versinschriften vol. i no. 164 CEG no. 161     archival material:     local script: Thasos inscription script analysis: writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal writing direction:left >  number of characters:53 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 ζ α η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π M ρ σ τ υ φ χ ψ ω punct.     transcription: η καλων τω μνημα [πα]- τηρ ε̣στησε θανωσ[ηι] Λεαρετηι· ωυ γαρ [ετ]- ι ζοσαν εσωφσωμ[εθα].     translation: not available