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browsing: glyph used as "epsilon" item number: 4 of 8 Methana & Troizen back to browse list new search/browse     photographs:     description: Gravestone of Androkles from Methana catalogue number: 477 LSAG reference: 181.01 date: c. 600 ? object type: Gravestone region: PL sub-region: Eastern Argolid archaeological context: Methana     publications: Premerstein, AM vol. 34 (1909) pp. 356 ff DGE no. 105 Friedlaender, P., Hoffleit, H., Epigrammata no. 27 SEG vol. 11 no. 391 Peek, W., Griechische Versinschriften vol. i no. 158 CEG no. 137     archival material:     local script: Methana & Troizen inscription script analysis: writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:? horizontal writing direction:left > & boustrophedon  number of characters:71 comments: "At the first turn the mason continued in false boustrophedon (i.e., Schlangenschrift) but righted himself halfway through" (LSAG 175). 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: Ευμαρε̅ς με πατε̅ρ Ανδροκ- λεος ενταδε σαμα πο- ιϝε̅σανς καταεθε̅κε φιλο μναμα hυιεος εμ- εν.     translation: not available