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description: Fragment of a code
catalogue number: 1178
LSAG reference: 315.15
date: c. 550 to 525?
object type: Block
region: AI
sub-region: Doric Islands (S. Aegean)
archaeological context: Lyttos
    publications:
IC vol. 1.18 no. 1

    archival material:
    local script: Crete
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top right  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:boustrophedon  number of characters:55 comments:
Punctuation sign used. Writing direction: lines 1-2 - both retrograde; lines 2-3 boustrophedon.

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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:

[- - -]στ̣α̣[ · · · ]οζοι ανο̄θεν
γα[- - -].
[- - -]ε [π]ροϝειπ̣εμεν
η αυτον
η [- - -]
[- - -]ν̣ αμευσονται
αμποτερο̣[- - -].

    translation:

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