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browsing: glyph used as "sigma" item number: 110 of 314 Argos back to browse list new search/browse     photographs:     description: Stele erected by the four heiromnemones in the Heraion catalogue number: 435 LSAG reference: 170.32 date: c. 460 - 450 ? object type: Stele region: PL sub-region: Argos archaeological context: Argive Heraion     publications: IG vol. iv no. 517 Richardson and Wheeler, AH vol. 1 pp. 197 ff no. 2 Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 39 no. 14 DGE no. 96(1) Vollgraff, Mnemosyne vol. 5 (1938) pp. 28 ff SEG vol. 11 no. 303 Buck, C.D., The Greek Dialects edition 1 no. 82     archival material:     local script: Argos inscription script analysis: writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal / vertical writing direction:left >  number of characters:100 comments: Lines 4 and 6 have been carried on down the right-hand edge of the stone. Writing direction in line 6: Schlangenschrift. The 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 ζ α η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π M ρ σ τ υ φ χ ψ ω punct.     transcription:     translation: not available