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description: Bronze plaque concerning the suppliant Phrasiarides, from the citadel
catalogue number: 470
LSAG reference: 174.02
date: c. 500 - 480 ?
object type: Plaque
region: PL
sub-region: Mycenae
archaeological context: Mycenae
    publications:
IG vol. iv no. 492
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 51 no. 1
Kern, O., Inscriptiones Graecae
DGE no. 97
Vollgraff, Mnemosyne vol. 57 (1929) pp. 221 f
Levi, AJA vol. 49 (1945) pp. 301 f
SEG vol. 11 no. 299
Wace, Mycenae (1949) no. 86
Buck, C.D., The Greek Dialects edition 1 no. 80

    archival material:
    local script: Mycenae
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:100 comments:
Punctuation signs present.

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:

Φραhιαριδας ⋮ Μυ-
κανεαθεν ⋮ παρ' Α-
θαναιας ⋮ ες πολιος
⋮ ικετας ⋮ εγεντο ⋮
επ' Αντια ⋮ και Πυρ-
ϝια ⋮ ειεν δε ⋮ Αντι-
ας ⋮ και Κιθιος ⋮ καισ-
χρο̅ν

    translation:

not available