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description: "Coins inscribed KNOS, KNOSIO right to left"
catalogue number: 1171
LSAG reference: 315.14
date: c. 480 to 450
object type: Coin
region: AI
sub-region: Doric Islands (S. Aegean)
archaeological context: Knossos
    publications:
Head, B.V., Historia Numorum edition 2 pp. 460
Babelon, E., Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines vol. 2 edition 3 pp. 937ff

    archival material:
not available
    local script: Crete
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:other
writing direction:left > & < right  number of characters:1147 comments:
Two types of coins - two inscriptions?

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:

coin legends
Κνο̄σ, Κνο̄σιο

    translation:

not available