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Corinth
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description: Bronze ten-stater weight from Attica
catalogue number: 319
LSAG reference: 132.36
date: c. 500 - 475 ?
object type: Weight
region: PL
sub-region: Corinth
archaeological context: Attica
    publications:
Hultsch, J. Int. Arch. Num. (1905) pp. 5 f
NC no. 160
Jeffery, BSA vol. 43 (1948) pp. 205 f

    archival material:
    local script: Corinth
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point:   writing orientation:
writing direction:left >  number of characters:0

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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:

obv. πενπταιον
rev. [Ϙ]ορινθιον
rev. [Κ]ορινθιον

    translation:

not available