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Miletos
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description: Dedication by the sons of Python (?) at Didyma
catalogue number: 1290
LSAG reference: 342.22
date: c. 600 - 575 ?
object type: Statue
region: EG
sub-region: Ionic Dodekapolis
archaeological context: Didyma
    publications:
Roehl, H., IGA no. 483
Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 133
GIBM no. 930
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 19 no. 2
SGDI no. 5504
SIG edition 3 no. 3
DGE no. 723
Pryce, BMC Sculpture vol. 1 (1928) pp. 112 f
Bloesch, Agalma (1943) pp. 20
AGA no. 42
BM no. B 281
Tuchelt, Die archaischen Skulpturen von Didyma (1970) no. K 66
Harder, Didyma vol. 2 (1958) no. 1

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

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.

    transcription:

τα αγαλματα ταδε ανεθεσαν, (κτλ...)

    translation:

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