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Sikyon
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description: Part of an opisthographic stele listing victories at the Games
catalogue number: 362
LSAG reference: 143.13a-b
date: c. 500 - 475 ?
object type: Stele
region: PL
sub-region: Sikyon
archaeological context:
    publications:
Orlandos, PAE (1932) pp. 70
Lejeune, REA vol. 45 (1943) pp. 183,191
SEG vol. 11 no. 257
SEG vol. 14 no. 30
Moretti, L., Iscrizioni agonistiche greche no. 12

    archival material:
    local script: Sikyon
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:36 comments:
One character not preserved fully, four illegible.

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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:

Αγαθα̣[ρχος?] ανεθε̅κε - - -] | Πυθοι | Ισθμοι | Νεμεα[ι] | Σεκυο̣̅[νι] | Α̣θ̣αν̣[αις] | [- - -]

    translation:

not available