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Miletos
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description: Dedication by the sons of Anaximandros
catalogue number: 1291
LSAG reference: 342.23
date: c. 600 - 575 ?
object type: Base
region: EG
sub-region: Ionic Dodekapolis
archaeological context: Didyma
    publications:
Roehl, H., IGA no. 484
Loewy, E., IGB no. 2
Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 134
GIBM no. 931
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 19 no. 3
SGDI no. 5505
Raubitschek, Bull. Bulgare vol. 12 (1938) pp. 141 no. 1
Tuchelt, Die archaischen Skulpturen von Didyma (1970) pp. 210-11
Harder, Didyma vol. 2 (1958) no. 2

    archival material:
    local script: Miletos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:boustrophedon  number of characters:53

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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:

οι Αναξιμανδρο παιδες το Μανδρομαχ[ο ?τὠπολωνι]
[ημεας ανε]θεσαν. εποιησε δε Τερψικλης.

    translation:

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