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Sikyon
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description: Incised inscription on Attic BF dinos from Caere
catalogue number: 353
LSAG reference: 143.05
date: c. 550 - 525
object type: Dinos
region: PL
sub-region: Sikyon
archaeological context: Caere
    publications:
Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 95
SGDI no. 3164
IG vol. iv no. 424
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 49 no. 2
Mingazzini, Vasi Coll. Castellani (1930) no. 446
Technau, Exekias no. 15
Lejeune, REA vol. 45 (1943) pp. 184,191
ABV pp. 146 no. 20

    archival material:
    local script: Sikyon
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:other
writing direction:left >  number of characters:23 comments:
Two inscriptions. The second is an example of Sikyon script.

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:

Επαινετος μ' εδο̅κεν Χαροπο̅ι

    translation:

not available