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description: Prize inscription from games of Herakles at Thespiai, cut on the rim of a bronze hydria found in a tomb at Votonisi, Epirus
catalogue number: 149
LSAG reference: 95.16c.S435
date: 475 - 450
object type: Hydria
region: CG
sub-region: Boiotia
archaeological context: Votonisi
    publications:
Vokotopoulou, BCH vol. 99 (1975) pp. 794-54
SEG vol. 30 no. 541
Ioannina Museum no. 302

    archival material:
    local script: Boiotia
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:other
writing direction:left >  number of characters:17

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:

Ερακληος ες Θεσπιας.
    translation:

not available