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Kleonai or Tiryns
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description: Graffito on a Subgeometric cup from an early shrine in the precinct of the Argive Heraion
catalogue number: 398
LSAG reference: 150.11
date: c. 700 - 675 ?
object type: Cup
region: PL
sub-region: Phleious, Kleonai (with Nemea), Tiryns
archaeological context: Argive Heraion
    publications:
Blegen, AJA vol. 43 (1939) pp. 425 f
SEG vol. 11 no. 306

    archival material:
    local script: Kleonai or Tiryns
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:other
writing direction:< right  number of characters:7

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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:

χος {η}εμι.

    translation:

not available