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Miletos
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description: Dedication of bronze weights (one surviving) at Didyma, carried off to Susa
catalogue number: 1298
LSAG reference: 343.30
date: c. 550 - 525 ?
object type: Weight
region: EG
sub-region: Ionic Dodekapolis
archaeological context: Susa
    publications:
SGDI vol. 4 no. 860 f
Pontremoli and Haussoullier, Didymes pp. 188
Haussoullier, Mémoires de la Délégation en Perse vol. 7 (1905) pp. 155 ff
SIG edition 3 no. 3
Perdrizet, REG vol. 34 (1921) pp. 64 ff
Pézard and Pottier, Cat. Antiq. de la Susiane edition 2 (1926) pp. 107 no. 234
SEG vol. 7 no. 9
SEG vol. 30 no. 1290
Harder, Didyma vol. 2 (1958) no. 7

    archival material:
    local script: Miletos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: other  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:boustrophedon  number of characters:75

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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:

ταδε τἀγαλματ' α̣πο̣ λ̣ειο Α̣ριστολοχ̣[ος, ... | ..], Θρασων ανεθεσαν τ[ὠ]|πολλωνι δεκατην· εχε̣[ε] δ' αυτα Ιτσικλης (sic) ο Κυδιμα̣νδ̣[ρο].

    translation:

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