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description: Helmets and shields from a trophy dedcated at Olympia
catalogue number: 419
LSAG reference: 169.18
date: c. 500 - 480 ?
object type: Armour
region: PL
sub-region: Argos
archaeological context: Olympia
    publications:
Olympia vol. 5 no. 250
SGDI no. 3263-4
BMC Bronzes pp. 251
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 36 no. 5
DGE no. 80
Vollgraff, Mnemosyne vol. 59 (1931) pp. 22f
Kukahn, Der Griech. Helm (1939) no. 47
Kunze and Schleif, JdI, Olympiabericht vol. 53 (1938)
Olympiabericht vol. 2 pp. 68,73
JdI vol. 56 (1941)
Olympiabericht vol. 3 pp. 76 ff,81 ff
Olympiabericht vol. 5 (1956) pp. 35 ff
SEG vol. 11 no. 1203
Brommer, Ant. Kleinkunst im Schloss Fasanerie (1955) pp. 5 f
Friedlaender, P., Hoffleit, H., Epigrammata no. 174
Zunze, Ol. Ber vol. 8 pp. 91-5

    archival material:
    local script: Argos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:32 comments:
More than one inscription, with the same text (LSAG, 162). Writing method: circles and semicircles ring-punched.

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:

τἀργ[ει]οι ανεθεν το̅ι Διϝι το̅ν Ϙορινθοθεν.

    translation:

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