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description: Graffito (name) on ostracon.
catalogue number: 23
LSAG reference: 76.09e
date: 7th c. - early 6th c.
object type: Ostrakon
region: CG
sub-region: Attica
archaeological context: Athens
    publications:
Vanderpool, Hesperia Suppl. vol. 8 pp. 394 ff. no. 17
Agora vol. 29 no. D1

    archival material:
not available
    local script: Attica
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:horizontal?
writing direction:< right  number of characters:10

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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:
Πισισ<τ>ρατος.

    translation:

not available