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browsing: glyph used as "punctuation" item number: 61 of 69 Chios back to browse list new search/browse     photographs:     description: Legal text inscribed on four sides of a stele catalogue number: 1315 LSAG reference: 343.41 date: c. 600 - 550 ? object type: Stele region: EG sub-region: Ionic Dodekapolis archaeological context: Chios     publications: Wilamowitz and Jacobsthal, Nordionische Steine (1909) pp. 64 ff SGDI vol. 4 no. 873 ff DGE no. 687 GHI edition 2 pp. 257 no. 1 Jeffery, BSA vol. 51 (1956) pp. 1557 ff Oliver, J.H., AJP (1959) pp. 296 ff ML no. 8 SEG vol. 35 no. 921 Istanbul Arch. Mus. no. 1907     archival material:     local script: Chios inscription script analysis: writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:mixed horizontal/vertical writing direction:boustrophedon  number of characters:100 comments: some sigmas in retrograde Letter forms found in this inscription are listed below. Click on a glyph to browse other inscriptions in which it also appears. α β γ δ ε ζ α η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π M ρ σ τ υ φ χ ψ ω punct.     transcription: A. [- - -]κ̣α : της Ιστιης δημο ρητρας ⋮ φυλασσω[ν? - - -] [- - -]ον : ηρει : ημ μεν δημαρ- χων : η βασιλευων : δεκασ̣[θηι? - - -] [- - - ?τη]ς Ιστιης αποδοτω : δημα- ρχεων ⋮ εξπρηξαι : τον ε[ξεταστην? - - -] [- - -]εν δημο κεκλημενο· αλοιαι τιμη διπλησ̣[ιη - - -] [- - -]ν̣ ο̣σ̣η̣ν̣ π̣αρ̣αλ̣οι̣ω̣ [·] B. [c. 3] η̣ν̣ δ' ηκκλητος δ̣ι̣[κη? - - -] [- - -] ην δε αδικηται : παρα δημαρχωι : στατηρ̣[α - - -] C. εκκαλεσθω ες βολην την δημ- οσιην· τηι τριτηι εξ Εβδομαιων βολη αγερεσθ- ω η δημοσιη ε- πιθωιος λεκτ- η πεντηκοντ' απ' ο φυλης· τα τ' αλ[λ]- [α] πρησσετω τα δη- μο και δικα[ς ο] [ϙο]σαι αν εκκλ- ητοι γενων̣[τ]- [αι] το μηνος π- ασας επι̣[κρι]- [νετω? · · ·] [c. 4] σ̣ε̣ρ̣ [c. 3] [- - -] D. [- - - Α]ρ̣τ̣εμισιωνος. [- - -]ων ορκια επι- ταμνετω ϙω̣[μνυτω? - - -] [- - - β]α̣σιλευσιν.     translation: not available