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browsing: glyph used as "kappa" item number: 19 of 175 Thessaly back to browse list new search/browse     photographs: not available     description: Stele with the text of a sacral law, from the Apollonion at Magnesia catalogue number: 172 LSAG reference: 98.01 date: c. 550 ? object type: Stele region: CG sub-region: Thessaly archaeological context: Korope     publications: IG vol. ix.2 no. 1202 Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 94 no. 1 DGE no. 603 REA vol. 47 (1945) pp. 100 f     archival material:     local script: Thessaly inscription script analysis: writing starting point: bottom left  writing orientation:vertical writing direction:boustrophedon & schlangenshrift  number of characters:85 comments: See LSAG p49ff ll 1-2 boustrophedon; 2-3 schlangenschrift; 3-5 boustrophedon. Orientation of some letters within text is irregular 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: αι κε αφελε̅ται το δρ[- - -] [- - -]εχς ε̅ προχος· αι κε το- ν αραχον αφελε̅ται, α[πισαι? - - -] [- - - ? και αρα]χον διαδυμεν. αι κε με̅ θ- ελε̅, απισαι πεντε̅ϙοντα̣ [- - -].     translation: not available