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Thera
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description: Rough stelai from Sellada cemetery
catalogue number: 1207
LSAG reference: 323.03
date: 7th century?
object type: Stele
region: AI
sub-region: Doric Islands (S. Aegean)
archaeological context: Thera cem.
    publications:
IG vol. xii.3 no. "765, etc"
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 1 no. 3
DGE pp. 215 no. 4
IG vol. xii.3 no. 783 (table)

    archival material:
    local script: Thera
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:vertical
writing direction:< right  number of characters:6 comments:
A further 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:

i
hαδιμα
(IG xii.3.771)
ii
Ετεοκληια
(IG xii.3.781)
iii
Ευανιο
(IG xii.3.783)

    translation:

not available