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browsing: glyph used as "alpha" item number: 29 of 375 Thessaly back to browse list new search/browse     photographs: not available     description: Epitaph for Pyrrhiadas on a base, Kierion catalogue number: 177 LSAG reference: 99.04 date: c. 500 - 480 ? object type: Base region: CG sub-region: Thessaly archaeological context: Kierion     publications: Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 237 IG vol. ix.2 no. 270 Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 94 no. 4 Friedlaender, P., Hoffleit, H., Epigrammata no. 160 Peek, W., Griechische Versinschriften vol. i no. 69 CEG no. 118     archival material:     local script: Thessaly inscription script analysis: writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal writing direction:left >  number of characters:70 comments: cut on two sides of the base 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: μναμ' εμι Πυριαδα, hος ουκ ε̅π̣ι̣- στατο φευγεν, αλ' αυθε περ γας τασδε πολον αριστευο̅ν εθανε.     translation: not available