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Thera
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description: Gravestone of Alexagoras
catalogue number: 1221
LSAG reference: 323.15
date: c. 480-450?
object type: Gravestone
region: AI
sub-region: Doric Islands (S. Aegean)
archaeological context: Thera cem.
    publications:
IG vol. xii.3 no. 811
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 5 no. 21

    archival material:
not available
    local script: Thera
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:9

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:

Αλεξα-
γορα.

    translation:

not available