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description: Signature of Glaukias on a base for a dedication by Gelon at Olympia
catalogue number: 258
LSAG reference: 113.12
date: c. 485 ?
object type: Base
region: CG
sub-region: Aigina
archaeological context: Olympia
    publications:
Roehl, H., IGA no. 359b-c
Olympia vol. 5 no. 143
SGDI no. 3410
SIG edition 3 no. 33
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 68 no. 6
DGE no. 115.2
Olympia Museum no. 382a-b

    archival material:
    local script: Aigina
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:35 comments:
Punctuation sign used.

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:

[Γελο̅ν ο Δεινομενε]ος ⋮ ανεθε̅κε.
Γλαυκιας ⋮ Αιγινατας ⋮ ε-
[π]οιε̅σε.
    translation:

not available