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description: Grave stele of [Eu?]kleitos on of Prokles, from Megara
catalogue number: 333
LSAG reference: 137.03
date: c. 500 ?
object type: Grave stele
region: PL
sub-region: Megara
archaeological context: Megara
    publications:
Willhelm and Solmsn, AM vol. 31 (1906) pp. 89 ff no. 342 ff
Kern, O., Inscriptiones Graecae
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 52 no. 1
DGE no. 148
Highbarger, History of Ancient Megara (1927) pp. 23 f no. 75
SEG vol. 13 no. 311
Peek, W., Griechische Versinschriften vol. i no. 2068
CEG no. 134

    archival material:
    local script: Megara
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:64

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:

[- - -
. . . . .]οιπ̣αλ̣[. . . .
. .[Ευ?]κλειτον Προκ
λεος· ται δ' ενπιδε
ς αι τε κα αλει : και κ
αλει θαψειν τειδε τρ
οπο̅ι πολ̣[ιο]ς.

    translation:

not available