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description: Base of a late BF lekythos from a grave (?), Sikyon, with graffito 'heroos'
catalogue number: 359
LSAG reference: 143.10
date: c.500 - 475 ?
object type: Lekythos
region: PL
sub-region: Sikyon
archaeological context: Sikyon
    publications:
Orlandos, PAE (1951) pp. 191 no. 2
SEG vol. 14 no. 313

    archival material:
not available
    local script: Sikyon
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:uncertain
writing direction:left >  number of characters:6 comments:
The inscription is found on the base of the lekythos.

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:

hερο̅ος
    translation:

not available