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browsing: glyph used as "delta" item number: 35 of 175 Phokis back to browse list new search/browse     photographs: not available     description: Dedication to Athena and Hera, found on the site of Mycenean (not classical) Krisa; possibly not Phokian catalogue number: 196 LSAG reference: 103.01 date: c. 600 - 650 ? object type: Base region: CG sub-region: Phokis archaeological context: Delphi     publications: Roehl, H., IGA no. 314 Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 228 SGDI no. 1537 Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 87-89 no. 1 DGE no. 316 Friedlaender, P., Hoffleit, H., Epigrammata no. 44 Raubitschek, Yale Studies vol. 11 (1950) pp. 295 f CEG no. 344     archival material:     local script: Phokis inscription script analysis: writing starting point: bottom right  writing orientation:vertical writing direction:boustrophedon  number of characters:77 comments: Haarer (D.Phil. thesis, 2000) argues that the stone originally stood with its long axis vertical, and with the start of the text at ground level (the left side as seen in Ulrich's drawing). 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: (reading upwards) epigraphic layout: τασδ̣ε γ̣' Αθαναιαι δρ̣αϝεος Φα[·]ε- αριστος εθε̅κε, hε̅ραι τε, hο̅ς και κ- ενος εχοι κλεϝος απθιτον αιϝει. (δραχ̣μ̣α̣ς Raubitschek; Φαν̣αριστος Friedlaender). metrical layout: τασδ̣ε γ̣' Αθαναιαι δρ̣αϝεος Φα[·]ε|αριστος εθε̅κε, hε̅ραι τε, hο̅ς και κ|ενος εχοι κλεϝος απθιτον αιϝει.     translation: not available