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description: Graffito on the base of a skyphos from the Agora at Athens
catalogue number: 331
LSAG reference: 137.01
date: 550 - 540 ?
object type: Skyphos
region: PL
sub-region: Megara
archaeological context: Athens
    publications:
Thompson, H., Hesperia vol. 1 (1948) pp. 160
Agora Museum no. P 17824
Agora vol. 21 no. B1

    archival material:
    local script: Megara
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:circle
writing direction:left >  number of characters:40

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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:

[- - -] : καθες : hυπο το̅ι hοδο̅ι : τας θυρ[ας τ]ας̣ το καπο : πριον[α].
    translation:

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