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description: Statues of Kleobis and Biton at Delphi
catalogue number: 403
LSAG reference: 168.04
date: c. 610 - 580
object type: Statue
region: PL
sub-region: Argos
archaeological context: Delphi
    publications:
FD vol. 4 pp. 5 ff
Von Premerstein, Ö. Jh. vol. 13 (1910) pp. 41 ff
DGE no. 317
GHI edition 2 pp. 257 no. 3
Daux, BCH vol. 61 (1937) pp. 61 ff
Richter, G.M.A., Kouroi pp. 78 ff
Van Groningen, Mnemosyne vol. 67 (1945) pp. 34 ff
Bruschor, Frühgriech. Jünglinge (1950) pp. 35 ff
Marcadé, J., Recueil des signatures des sculpteurs grecs no. 115
Delphi Museum no. 4672,980
SEG vol. 35 no. 479

    archival material:
not available
    local script: Argos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:neutral
writing direction:left > & < right  number of characters:45 comments:
There are three separate single lines. Punctuation sign used.

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:

4A
[- - -]τον ⋮ τ[c. 5?]τ[·]ρα?
4Ba
[Πολυ?]με̅δε̅ς εποιϝε hαργειος.
4Bb
ε α̣γ̣α̣γ̣οντοιδυι̣οι ⋮

    translation:

not available