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Thessaly
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description: Funeral stele of Polyxena, Larisa
catalogue number: 180
LSAG reference: 99.07
date: c. 460 - 450 ?
object type: Funerary monument
region: CG
sub-region: Thessaly
archaeological context: Larisa
    publications:
Brunn, AM vol. 8 (1883) pp. 81 ff
IG vol. ix.2 no. 663
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 95 no. 13
DGE no. 584.1
Brommer, AM vol. 65 (1940) pp. 111 f
Johansen, The Attic Grave-reliefs (1951) pp. 134 f
Buck, C.D., The Greek Dialects edition 1 no. 29a
NM no. 733

    archival material:
    local script: Thessaly
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:? horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:15

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:

Πολυξεναια ⋮ εμμι.

    translation:

not available