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browsing: glyph used as "sigma" item number: 6 of 15 Methana & Troizen back to browse list new search/browse     photographs:     description: Grave-pillar of Demotimos, Troizen catalogue number: 478 LSAG reference: 181.02 date: c. 550 - 525 ? object type: Funerary monument region: PL sub-region: Eastern Argolid archaeological context: Troizen     publications: Legrand, BCH vol. 17 (1893) pp. 84 ff no. 627 IG vol. iv no. 801 Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 110 no. 6 Arvanitopoullos, Epigraphike vol. 1 no. 88 DGE no. 102 Welter, Troizen u. Kalaureia (1941) pp. 39 ff, 54 Friedlaender, P., Hoffleit, H., Epigrammata no. 30 SEG vol. 11 no. 388 Peek, W., Griechische Versinschriften vol. i no. 216 CEG no. 138     archival material:     local script: Methana & Troizen inscription script analysis: writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:vertical writing direction:Schlangenschrift (false boustr.)  number of characters:100 comments: Schlangenschrift from left. Punctuation signs 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: Δαμοτιμο̅ι : τοδε σαμα : φιλα ϝεργασατο ματε̅ρ Αμφιδαμα ⋮ ου γαρ παιδες ενι μαγαροις εγενοντο· | και τριπος hον Θε̅βασσι θεο̅ν ε̅νικε ⋮ α̣σ̣τ̣[ιοισιν θαυμ' ανακειτ]α[ι] δ̣ευ̣ρ̣' απαιθε̅ς ⋮ επεθε̅κε δε παιδι.     translation: not available