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Phleious
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description: inscribed block from an archaic structure (altar?)
catalogue number: 382
LSAG reference: 150.01e
date: c. 600 - 550 ?
object type: Block
region: PL
sub-region: Phleious, Kleonai (with Nemea), Tiryns
archaeological context: Phleious
    publications:
IG vol. iv no. 439a-b
Roehl, H., IGA no. 28a-b
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 51 no. 1a-b
Scranton, Hesperia vol. 5 (1936) pp. 239 f
SEG vol. 27 pp. 38

    archival material:
    local script: Phleious
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top right  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:< right  number of characters:24 comments:
Nine characters unclear. Some characters are written upside down.

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:

τ̣ο τ̣οις̣ hορϙ̣ιο̣[ις?]- - -
δ̣ε̣κ̣α̣τας̣ αιτε κ[- - -]
    translation:

not available