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description: Inscription on anta from the Sikyonian Treasury at Olympia
catalogue number: 367
LSAG reference: 143.15a
date: c. 475 - 450 ?
object type: Architectural element
region: PL
sub-region: Sikyon
archaeological context: Olympia
    publications:
Olympia vol. 2 no. 43
Olympia vol. 5 no. 668
Roehl, H., IGA no. 27b-c
SGDI no. 3166-7
Frazer, Pausanias vol. 4 pp. 57 f
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 50 no. 4
Lejeune, REA vol. 45 (1943) pp. 184

    archival material:
    local script: Sikyon
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:23

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:

Σεκυονιοι

    translation:

not available