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browsing: glyph used as "pi" item number: 15 of 17 Thera back to browse list new search/browse     photographs:     description: Gravestone of Rhexanor and others. catalogue number: 1209 LSAG reference: 323.05 date: c. 600? object type: Gravestone region: AI sub-region: Doric Islands (S. Aegean) archaeological context: Thera cem.     publications: IG vol. xii.3 no. 762 Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 1 no. 1 DGE pp. 215 no. 1 Hiller von Gaertringen, JdI vol. 47 (1932) pp. 127ff IG vol. xii.suppl. pp. 89 no. 762 Vollgraff, L'Inhumation en terre sacrée (1941) pp. 18f SEG vol. 14 no. 522 Buck, C.D., The Greek Dialects edition 1 no. 110     archival material:     local script: Thera inscription script analysis: writing starting point: uncertain  writing orientation:horizontal writing direction:left > & < right  number of characters:42 comments: It is not possible to say whether the names were all cut at the same time. Bottom line, writing direction: Schlangenschrift. 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 ζ α η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π M ρ σ τ υ φ χ ψ ω punct.     transcription: Ρε̄κσανο̄ρ Αρκhαγετας Προκλης Κλεαγορας Περαιευς.     translation: not available