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Miletos
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description: Fragment of a oracular text
catalogue number: 1304
LSAG reference: 343.36
date: c.. 500 ?
object type: Fragment
region: EG
sub-region: Ionic Dodekapolis
archaeological context: Didyma
    publications:
Roehl, H., IGA no. 489
Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 139
Harder, Didyma vol. 2 (1958) no. 11

    archival material:
    local script: Miletos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:boustrophedon  number of characters:35

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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:

[. . . . .]σοι̣[σι]
λ̣ηιστοι̣· θ̣ε[ο-]
[ς] δε επεν· δικ̣-
αιον ποιεν
ως πατερες.

    translation:

not available