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description: Dedication of six statues signed by the sculptor Geneleos in the Heraion
catalogue number: 1265
LSAG reference: 341.06
date: c. 560
object type: Statue
region: EG
sub-region: Ionic Dodekapolis
archaeological context: Samian Heraion
    publications:
Buschor, Altsam. St. (1934) pp. 26 ff
Raubitschek, Bull. Bulgare vol. 12 (1938) pp. 140 f
AGA pp. 104 f

    archival material:
not available
    local script: Samos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point:   writing orientation:mixed horizontal/vertical
writing direction:left > & < right  number of characters:61 comments:
Two inscriptions (vertical from left single line & horizontal from right starting top right).

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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:

ν̣α̣ρχ̣η ημεα̣ς̣ α̣ν̣ε̣θ̣η̣κ̣ε τηι Ηρηι.

    translation:

not available