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description: Dedication on Naxian marble fragments.
catalogue number: 17
LSAG reference: 76.07
date: c. 625-600 BC
object type: ?
region: CG
sub-region: Attica
archaeological context: Athens
    publications:
IG vol. i edition 2 no. 672
Raubitschek, A.E., DAA no. 376
IG vol. i edition 3 no. 589

    archival material:
not available
    local script: Attica
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: uncertain  writing orientation:uncertain
writing direction:boustrophedon  number of characters:15 comments:
The third line written at right angles. Also, there are traces of two letters (omicron and iota) cut vertically on the left side.

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:
a1: [- - -]ν αϝυτ̣[αρ? - - - | - - -]εθ̣[εκεν (?)]
b1: [- - - δ]εκα̣[τεν (?) - - - | - - - τ̣αθ[εναιαι (?) - - -]
c1: - - - ιο - - -
d1: - - - εν̣
    translation:

not available