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description: Skyphos of Telesigeron, from Ialysos
catalogue number: 1395
LSAG reference: 357.23
date: end of 6th c. ?
object type: Skyphos
region: EG
sub-region: Doric Hexapolis & Neighbours
archaeological context: Ialysos
    publications:
Jacopi, Clara Rhodos vol. 3 pp. 222 ff
Rhodes Museum no. 11760

    archival material:
    local script: Rhodes
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point:   writing orientation:mixed horizontal/vertical
writing direction:left > & < right  number of characters:23 comments:
One line of five characters entirely in retrograde (letters in this line encoded here as if written conventionally).

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:

Τ̣[ελεστο]δικο εμι (partly erased)
Τελεσιγεροντ-
ος εμι.

    translation:

not available