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browsing: glyph used as "epsilon" item number: 2 of 24 Boiotia back to browse list new search/browse     photographs: not available     description: Grave-stele from the polyandrion of the Thespians who fell at Delion catalogue number: 152 LSAG reference: 95.19a date: 424 object type: Grave stele region: CG sub-region: Boiotia archaeological context: Thespiai     publications: Stamatakes, PAE (1882) pp. 71 f IG vol. vii no. 1888a-i Keramopoullos, AE (1920) pp. 18 ff Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 85 no. 26 DGE no. 478     archival material:     local script: Boiotia inscription script analysis: writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal writing direction:left >  number of characters:100 comments: 1. stoichedon; 2. mason has individual style, esp. cursive; 3. second form of epsilon used for ei. 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: Ευφατας Αρχελαος Λεσχο̅ν Λεβερος Δραπυς Κοκκυφς.     translation: not available