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description: Graffiti names and remarks incised on a rock plateau near the later gymnasium.
catalogue number: 1204
LSAG reference: 323.01a
date: end 8th century
object type: Rock
region: AI
sub-region: Doric Islands (S. Aegean)
archaeological context: Thera
    publications:
IG vol. xii.3 no. "536f, etc"
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 2 no. 6-Jul
DGE pp. 214 no. 1, 2, 4
Buck, C.D., The Greek Dialects edition 1 pp. 109

    archival material:
    local script: Thera
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:other
writing direction:boustrophedon & schlangenshrift  number of characters:53 comments:
Line one: Schlangenschrift; Line two: retrograde

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:

i
ναι τον Δελπhινιον ε̣ Κριμο̄ν
τε̄δε ο̄ιπhε παιδα, Βραθυκλεος αδελπhεο̣[ν].
(IG xii.3.357)
ii
Θαρης
Ανασικλης.
(IG xii.3.573)

    translation:

not available