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description: Base for a tripod, inscribed 'Dexxilos' from the Heraion
catalogue number: 436
LSAG reference: 170.33
date: c. 460 - 450 ?
object type: Base
region: PL
sub-region: Argos
archaeological context: Argive Heraion
    publications:
Richardon and Wheeler, AH vol. 1 pp. 205 no. 6
IG vol. iv no. 515
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 40 no. 18

    archival material:
    local script: Argos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:uncertain
writing direction:left >  number of characters:9

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.

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