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description: Inscription assigned to Euboia by dialect and alphabet on a late archaic gem in the British Museum. Text: SURIES EPOIESE
catalogue number: 1615
LSAG reference: 87.Add.374
date:
object type: Gem
region: CG
sub-region: Euboia
archaeological context:
    publications:
Beazley, J.D., The Lewes House Collection of Ancient Gems (1920) pp. 18ff





    archival material:
not available
    local script: Chalkis
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:other
writing direction:< right  number of characters:13

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:

Συριε̅ς εποιε̅σε.
    translation:

not available