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Boiotia
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description: Base for a dedication at Delphi by Epizelos, made by Hypatodoros and Aristogeiton
catalogue number: 150
LSAG reference: 95.17
date: c. 475 - 450 ?
object type: Base
region: CG
sub-region: Boiotia
archaeological context: Delphi
    publications:
Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 204
SGDI no. 1130
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 86 no. 24
SIG edition 3 no. 60
DGE no. 443
FD vol. 3.1 pp. 388 f
Marcadé, J., Recueil des signatures des sculpteurs grecs vol. 1 no. 8

    archival material:
    local script: Boiotia
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:60

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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:

[Ε]π̣ιδδαλος το̅̉πο[λλο̅νι]
Βιο̅τιος ⋮ εχς Ερχ[ομενο].
[h]υπατοδο̅ρος ⋮ Αρισστ[ογειτο̅ν]
εποε̅σαταν ⋮ Θε̅βαιαο̅ι.

    translation:

not available