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description: Dedication by Chares at Didyma
catalogue number: 1297
LSAG reference: 343.29
date: c. 550 - 540 ?
object type: Statue
region: EG
sub-region: Ionic Dodekapolis
archaeological context: Didyma
    publications:
Roehl, H., IGA no. 488
Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 138
GIBM no. 933
SGDI no. 5507
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 20 no. 5
DGE no. 723
Pryce, BMC Sculpture vol. 1 (1928) pp. 110 f
Richter, G.M.A., The Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks edition 3 no. 36
Bloesch, Agalma (1943) no. 20
Tuchelt, Die archaischen Skulpturen von Didyma (1970) no. K 47
Harder, Didyma vol. 2 (1958) no. 6
BM no. B 278

    archival material:
    local script: Miletos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top right  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:boustrophedon  number of characters:45

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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:

Χαρης ειμι ο Κλεσιος Τειχιοσης αρχος·
αγαλ̣μ̣α το Απολλωνος.

    translation:

not available