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description: Base for the grave-statue of Aischros, from the Kerameikos at Athens (reused in the city wall)
catalogue number: 1277
LSAG reference: 342.16
date: c. 490 - 480
object type: Funerary monument
region: EG
sub-region: Ionic Dodekapolis
archaeological context: Athens
    publications:
Threpsiades, PAE (1953) pp. 70 f
Lewis, D.M., IG vol. i edition 3 no. 1366

    archival material:
    local script: Samos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:20

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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:

Αισχρο ⋮ το Ζωιιλο
Σαμιο.

    translation:

not available