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Thessaly
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description: Funeral stele of Echedemos, Larisa
catalogue number: 182
LSAG reference: 99.09
date: c. 450 - 425 ?
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. 662
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 95 no. 10
DGE no. 584.2
Brommer, AM vol. 65 (1940) pp. 111,115
Buck, C.D., The Greek Dialects edition 1 no. 29b
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:9

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:

Ϝεκεδαμος.

    translation:

not available