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description: Gravestone of Hermaios, Aigina
catalogue number: 264
LSAG reference: 113.18
date: c. 475 - 450 ?
object type: Gravestone
region: CG
sub-region: Aigina
archaeological context: Aigina
    publications:
IG vol. iv no. 47
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 67 no. 5
DGE no. 114.1
Friedlaender, P., Hoffleit, H., Epigrammata no. 9
Peek, W., Griechische Versinschriften vol. i no. 56
CEG no. 349

    archival material:
    local script: Aigina
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:vertical
writing direction:left >  number of characters:37 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:

hερμαιο
σαμα
: τοδε
το
: Αγριτα
το Κυδονικο.

    translation:

not available