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description: Grave-stele of Diagoras
catalogue number: 1270
LSAG reference: 341.09
date: c. 540 - 520 ?
object type: Grave stele
region: EG
sub-region: Ionic Dodekapolis
archaeological context: Samos
    publications:
Boehlau, Aus ionischen u. italischen Nekroopolen (1898) pp. 41, 153 f
Buschor, AM vol. 58 (1933) pp. 31 f no. 1, Beil xi
Johansen, The Attic Grave Reliefs (1951) pp. 75

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    local script: Samos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:14

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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.

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