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browsing: glyph used as "phi" item number: 22 of 73 Sikyon back to browse list new search/browse     photographs: not available     description: Painted inscription on late PC aryballos from the Argive Heraion catalogue number: 349 LSAG reference: 143.01 date: c. 650 - 640 ? object type: Aryballos region: PL sub-region: Sikyon archaeological context: Argive Heraion     publications: Waldstein, AH vol. 2 pp. 185 VS pp. 103 NC no. 38 Lejeune, REA vol. 47 (1945) pp. 102 no. 3     archival material:     local script: Sikyon inscription script analysis: writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:other writing direction:uncertain  number of characters:2 comments: Two different readings of this inscription: the writing direction is uncertain, and it is not clear whether the consonant is qoppa or phi. 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 ζ α η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π M ρ σ τ υ φ χ ψ ω punct.     transcription: - φε -     translation: not available