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Phleious
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description: inscribed block from an archaic structure (altar?)
catalogue number: 378
LSAG reference: 150.01a
date: c. 600 - 550 ?
object type: Block
region: PL
sub-region: Phleious, Kleonai (with Nemea), Tiryns
archaeological context: Phleious
    publications:
Scranton, Hesperia vol. 5 (1936) pp. 235 ff no. 1-3,7
Jeffery, JHS vol. 59 (1939) no. 139
Scranton, Hesperia vol. 10 (1941) pp. 371 f
SEG vol. 11 no. 275-6
SEG vol. 27 no. 38

    archival material:
    local script: Phleious
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:13 comments:
Several inscribed blocks, marked a - g, from an archaic structure - LSAG, 150. Block a: one character illegible.

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:

[hιππο̅να?]ξ και hιπποκρατ̣[ε̅]

    translation:

not available