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Boiotia
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description: Funeral Stele of Dermys and Kittylos from Tanagra
catalogue number: 135
LSAG reference: 94.08
date: c. 600 - 575 ?
object type: Stele
region: CG
sub-region: Boiotia
archaeological context: Tanagra
    publications:
SGDI no. 857
IG vol. vii no. 579
Collignon, Les Statues funeraires (1911) pp. 60 f
DGE no. 455
Picard, Manuel vol. 1 pp. 508 f
Lullies, JdI vol. 51 (1936) no. 150
Grace, Archaic Sculpture from Boiotia (1939) pp. 53 f
Richter, G.M.A., Kouroi pp. 23,50,77 f
Friedlaender, P., Hoffleit, H., Epigrammata no. 4
Peek, W., Griechische Versinschriften vol. i no. 137
NM no. 56
CEG no. 109

    archival material:
    local script: Boiotia
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:mixed horizontal/vertical
writing direction:left >  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:

Αμφαλκε̅ς εστασ' επι Κιτυλο̅ι ε̅δ' επι Δερμυι.

    translation:

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