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browsing: glyph used as "alpha" item number: 11 of 30 Methana & Troizen back to browse list new search/browse     photographs: not available     description: Bronze spear-butt dedicated at Olympia by the Methanians catalogue number: 482 LSAG reference: 182.04 date: c. 500 - 475 ? object type: Spear-butt region: PL sub-region: Eastern Argolid archaeological context: Olympia     publications: Roehl, H., IGA no. 146 Olympia vol. 5 no. 247 Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 286 SGDI no. 3369 Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 110 no. 5 DGE no. 106 Kunze and Schleif, Olymp. Forschungen vol. 1 Olympia Museum no. 10     archival material:     local script: Methana & Troizen inscription script analysis: writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:vertical writing direction:left >  number of characters:24 comments: Carelessly incised. 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: Μεθανιοι απο Λακεδαιμιο̅ν     translation: not available