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description: Dedication to Demeter Chthonia at Hermion by Alexias
catalogue number: 487
LSAG reference: 182.08
date: c. 460- 450 ?
object type: Base
region: PL
sub-region: Eastern Argolid
archaeological context: Hermion
    publications:
Loewy, E., IGB no. 45
IG vol. iv no. 683
Peek, AM vol. 59 (1934) pp. 45 ff
Orlandini, Mem. Acc. Linc. (1952) pp. 273 ff
Jameson, Hesperia vol. 22 (1953) pp. 149 ff
Marcadé, J., Recueil des signatures des sculpteurs grecs vol. 1 no. 63
SEG vol. 11 no. 378

    archival material:
not available
    local script: Hermion
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:74 comments:
Punctuation sign used.

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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:

Αλεξιας : Λυο̅νος : αν[εθ]ε̅[κε]
ται Δαματρι : ται Χθονια[ι]
hερμιονευς.
Κρε̅σιλας : εποιε̅σε : Κυδο̅νιατ[ας].

    translation:

not available