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Thasos
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description: Inscriptions on reliefs of Apollo, Hermes, Nymphs, and Graces, from the passage to the Prytaneion, Thasos
catalogue number: 1133
LSAG reference: 308.70
date: c. 475 to 465 ?
object type: Relief
region: AI
sub-region: Ionic Is. (Cen. & N. Aegean)
archaeological context: Thasos
    publications:
IG vol. xii.8 no. 358
Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 22
SGDI no. 5455
SIG edition 3 no. 1033
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 63 no. 6
DGE no. 777
Louvre, Encycl. phot. de l'Art vol. 3 pp. 148-149
Daux, RA vol. 1 (1948) pp. 244 f
Pouilloux, Recherches sur l'histoire et les cultes de Thasos vol. 1 (1954) pp. 59 ff, 440

    archival material:
    local script: Thasos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:other
writing direction:left >  number of characters:100

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:

Νυμφηισιν κἀπωλλονι Νυμφηγετηι θηλυ και αρσ-
εν αμ βωληι πρωσερδεν. ωιν ωυ θεμις ωυδε χωιρων.
ωυ παιονιζεται.
Χαρισιν αιγα ωυ θεμις ωυδε χωιρ̣ων.

    translation:

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