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browsing: glyph used as "phi" item number: 15 of 106 Boiotia back to browse list new search/browse     photographs: not available     description: Two abecedaria on a Boiotian cup, provenance unknown catalogue number: 154 LSAG reference: 95.20 date: c. 420 object type: Cup region: CG sub-region: Boiotia archaeological context:     publications: Kalinka, AM vol. 16 (1892) pp. 101 ff Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 86 no. 30 Ure, JHS vol. 46 (1926) pp. 57 NM CC no. 1116     archival material:     local script: Boiotia inscription script analysis: writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:other writing direction:left >  number of characters:48 comments: two characters at end of sequence may represent psi and omega but their form is unparalleled and does not appear to relate to other known glyphs used for these letters. 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: α β γ δ ε ϝ ζ h θ ι κ λ μ ν ο π ρ σ τ υ ξ φ χ̣ ψ̣ ω. α β γ δ ε ϝ ζ h θ ι κ λ μ ν ο π ρ σ τ υ ξ φ̣ χ.     translation: not available