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browsing: glyph used as "epsilon" item number: 49 of 49 Rhodes back to browse list new search/browse     photographs: not available     description: graffito of Anaxenor of Ialysos at Abou Simbel catalogue number: 1374 LSAG reference: 356.04b date: c. 591 object type: Architectural element region: EG sub-region: Doric Hexapolis & Neighbours archaeological context: Abou Simbel     publications: Roehl, H., IGA no. 428 Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 130 Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 no. 18.1 SIG edition 3 no. 1 DGE no. 301 GHI edition 2 pp. 257 f no. 4 Bernand & Masson, REG (1957) pp. 10 ff, 16ff no. 2, 4     archival material:     local script: Rhodes inscription script analysis: writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal writing direction:boustrophedon  number of characters:64 comments: retrograde sigma 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: Αναχσανο̅ρ ε[γραφε?] hο Ιαλυσιος hοκα Βασιλ- ευς hε̅λασε τον στρατον̣ το πρατον. Α̣μ̣α̣σ̣ι̣ς̣ ḥα̣μ̣α̣ (?), Ψαματιχος.     translation: not available