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browsing: glyph used as "san" item number: 38 of 115 Sikyon back to browse list new search/browse     photographs: not available     description: Strip cut from a brone plaque at Olympia catalogue number: 351 LSAG reference: 143.03 date: c. 600 -550 ? object type: Plaque region: PL sub-region: Sikyon archaeological context: Olympia     publications: Olympia vol. 5 no. 714 Roehl, H., IGA no. 21 SGDI no. 3163 Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 94 Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 49 no. 1 DGE no. 130 Lejeune, REA vol. 45 (1943) pp. 184,191 SEG vol. 11 no. 1216 Olympia Museum no. 611a-b     archival material:     local script: Sikyon inscription script analysis: writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:uncertain writing direction:< right  number of characters:22 comments: The inscription was originally longer, probably inscribed boustrophedon. Five characters unclear. 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: [- - -]τ̣αθος τ̣άριστερον π̣υρ̣ρ̣ιτο[- - -]·     translation: not available