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browsing: glyph used as "eta" item number: 141 of 224 Samos back to browse list new search/browse     photographs: not available     description: Statue dedicated by Cheramyes in the Heraion catalogue number: 1261 LSAG reference: 341.04 date: c. 570 - 560 object type: Statue region: EG sub-region: Ionic Dodekapolis archaeological context: Samian Heraion     publications: Roehl, H., IGA no. 384 Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 152 SGDI no. 5710 Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 24 no. 21 DGE no. 715 Buschor, Altsamische Standbilder (1934) pp. 25 f, 29 f Bloesch, Agalma (1943) pp. 18 AGA pp. 103 f Paris, Louvre no. 686 Harder, Didyma vol. 2 (1958) no. 4     archival material: not available     local script: Samos inscription script analysis: writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:vertical writing direction:left >  number of characters:28 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: Χηραμυης μ' ανεθηκεν τἠρηι αγαλμα.     translation: not available