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description: Kouros dedicated by Leukios in a precinct of Apollo near Glyphada, Samos
catalogue number: 1264
LSAG reference: 341.05
date: c. 575 - 550
object type: Kouros
region: EG
sub-region: Ionic Dodekapolis
archaeological context: Samos
    publications:
SGDI no. 5705
DGE no. 715
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 25 no. 22
Buschor, Altsamische Standbilder (1934) pp. 17 f
Richter, G.M.A., Kouroi no. 143
Buschor, Frühgriechesche Jünglinge (1950) pp. 77 f

    archival material:
not available
    local script: Samos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:vertical
writing direction:left >  number of characters:24

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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:

Λευκιος α̣νεθηκε
τωι Απολωνι.

    translation:

not available