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Miletos
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description: Round base or altar dedicated to Hekate, from the later Delphinion
catalogue number: 1302
LSAG reference: 343.34
date: c. 500 - 494
object type: Base or altar
region: EG
sub-region: Ionic Dodekapolis
archaeological context: Miletos
    publications:
Rehm, Milet vol. 1 edition 3 pp. 153 f no. 129
DGE no. 724
Shoe, Profiles (1936) pp. 18,151
Rehm, Handbuch vol. 1 no. 217

    archival material:
    local script: Miletos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top right  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:boustrophedon  number of characters:43

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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:

[c. 9 ?Λ]-
ε̣οθρα̣σ[......]
[..] Λ̣εωδαμας
Οναξο πρυτ[α]
νευοντες α-
νεθεσαν τἠ-
κατηι.

    translation:

not available