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description: Bronze hare dedicated to Apollo Prie(n)eus by Hephaistion
catalogue number: 1276
LSAG reference: 342.15
date: c. 500 ?
object type: Figurine (animal)
region: EG
sub-region: Ionic Dodekapolis
archaeological context:
    publications:
Roehl, H., IGA no. 385
Kirchhoff, A., Studien zur Geschichte des griechischen Alphabets edition 4 no. 31
Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 153
BMC Bronzes no. 237
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 26 no. 23
DGE no. 715

    archival material:
    local script: Samos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top right  writing orientation:uncertain
writing direction:< right  number of characters:39 comments:
Written across a bronze statuette; part of one nu "forgotten by the cutter".

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 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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