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Klazomenai
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description: Gravestone of [Hes]ychia
catalogue number: 1354
LSAG reference: 345.66
date: c. 475 - 450
object type: Gravestone
region: EG
sub-region: Ionic Dodekapolis
archaeological context: Klazomenai
    publications:
Judeich, AM vol. 15 (1890) pp. 338 f
SGDI no. 5609
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 22 no. 17
IEK no. 522

    archival material:
    local script: Klazomenai
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:27 comments:
Unusual lambda, mirroring form of upsilon used.

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 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:

στηλη
[Ησ]υχιης της
Λεωνος
γυναικος.

    translation:

not available