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description: Leg of a colossal kouros from the Heraion, dedicated by Cheramyes
catalogue number: 1268
LSAG reference: 341.07
date: c. 540
object type: Kouros
region: EG
sub-region: Ionic Dodekapolis
archaeological context: Samian Heraion
    publications:
Buschor, Alts. St. (1934) pp. 12
Karouzos, Epitumbion Tsounta (1941) no. 539
Bloesch, Agalma (1943) pp. 17
Buschor, Neue Beiträge (ed. Lullies) (1954) pp. 97 ff
CEG no. 423

    archival material:
not available
    local script: Samos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:vertical
writing direction:left >  number of characters:7

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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:

[Χηρα]μυης μ'ανεθη[κε θεηι περικαλλ]ες αγαλμα.


    translation:

not available