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browsing: glyph used as "nu" item number: 21 of 48 Methana & Troizen back to browse list new search/browse     photographs:     description: Grave-pillar of Praxiteles, Troizen catalogue number: 481 LSAG reference: 182.03 date: c. 500 ? object type: Funerary monument region: PL sub-region: Eastern Argolid archaeological context: Troizen     publications: Legrand, BCH vol. 24 (1900) pp. 179 ff IG vol. iv no. 800 Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 110 no. 7 DGE no. 101 Welter, Troizen u. Kalaureia (1941) no. 40.54 Friedlaender, P., Hoffleit, H., Epigrammata no. 29 SEG vol. 11 no. 387 Peek, W., Griechische Versinschriften vol. i no. 165 CEG no. 139     archival material:     local script: Methana & Troizen inscription script analysis: writing starting point: bottom left  writing orientation:vertical writing direction:left >  number of characters:100 comments: Epigram. Lines 2-3 inscribed in Schlangenschrift. 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: Πραξιτελει τοδε μναμα ϝισο̅ν ποιϝε̅σε θανο[ντι], [τ]ουτο δ' εταιροι σαμα χεαν βαρ̣εα στεναχοντες ϝεργο̅ν αντ' αγ[α]θο̅ν, κε̅̉παμερον εξετελεσα[ν].     translation: not available