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Thasos
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description: Graffiti on blocks of the city walls.
catalogue number: 1132
LSAG reference: 307.69b
date: c. 491 ?
object type: Wall
region: AI
sub-region: Ionic Is. (Cen. & N. Aegean)
archaeological context: Thasos
    publications:
IG vol. xii.8 no. 390
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 63 no. 1
Pouilloux, Recherches sur l'histoire et les cultes de Thasos vol. 1 (1954) pp. 439

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    local script: Thasos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:
writing direction:left > & < right  number of characters:27 comments:
More than one inscription.

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.

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