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description: Graffito on a stone fragment from the Acropolis.
catalogue number: 2
LSAG reference: 76.02
date: 8th c. BC (?)
object type: ?
region: CG
sub-region: Attica
archaeological context: Athens
    publications:
IG vol. i edition 2 no. 484
Peek, W., AM vol. 57 (1942) pp. 37f
CEG no. 433
IG vol. i edition 3 no. 1418

    archival material:
not available
    local script: Attica
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top right  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:boustrophedon  number of characters:17 comments:
The earliest Greek inscription on stone we possess. (LSAG)

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:
[- - -]ενκεκαλ̣[υπται?- - -]
[- - -α]νφοτεροιν ε̣[- - -].
    translation:

not available