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description: Dedication of Euthymos at Olympia, made by the sculptor Pythagoras of Samos
catalogue number: 1280
LSAG reference: 342.19
date: c. 470
object type: Base
region: EG
sub-region: Ionic Dodekapolis
archaeological context: Olympia
    publications:
Roehl, H., IGA no. 388
Olympia vol. 5 no. 144
Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 156
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 27 no. 28
SEG vol. 14 no. 354
Moretti, L., Iscrizioni agonistiche greche no. 13
CEG no. 399
Olympia Museum no. 357

    archival material:
    local script: Samos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:100

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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:

Ευθυμος Λοκρος Αστυκλεος τρις Ολυμπι' ενικων,
εικονα δ' εστησεν τηνδε βροτοις̣ εσοραν.
Ευθυμος Λοκρος απο Ζεφυριο ανεθηκε.
Πυθαγορας Σαμιος εποιησεν.

    translation:

not available