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description: Dedication of a colossal kouros
catalogue number: 1293
LSAG reference: 342.25
date: c. 575 - 550 ?
object type: Kouros
region: EG
sub-region: Ionic Dodekapolis
archaeological context: Didyma
    publications:
Roehl, H., IGA no. 487
Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 137
Pontremoli and Haussoullier, Didymes pp. 202 ff
Déonna, Les Apollons archaïques (1909) pp. 231 f
Haussoullier, Mémoires de la Délégation en Perse vol. 7 (1905) pp. 163 f
Jeffery, BSA vol. 50 (1955) pp. 84
Tuchelt, Die archaischen Skulpturen von Didyma (1970) no. K 8
Harder, Didyma vol. 2 (1958) no. 12-13

    archival material:
    local script: Miletos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: uncertain  writing orientation:
writing direction:boustrophedon  number of characters:36

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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:

τοσ̣δ̣ε τος ανδ̣ριαντ[ας οι - - - | - - -]τ[ο] υ̣ιοι αν[εθε]σαν̣ παν̣τ̣ας, Δωμ̣ε̣ων (?), Σ[- - - | - - - τὠπολωνι δεκατ]η̣ν̣

    translation:

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