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Lakonia
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description: Lak. III kylix painted by the Arkesilas painter, from Vulci
catalogue number: 512
LSAG reference: 199.08
date: c. 570 - 560
object type: Kylix
region: PL
sub-region: Lakonia
archaeological context: Vulci
    publications:
Lane, BSA vol. 34 (1933-4) pp. 140,161 f
Buschor, Griech. Vasen (1940) no. 75
CVA Paris, Bib. Nat. vol. 1
Furtwaengler, A., Reichold, K., Griechische Vasenmalerei vol. 3
Smith, H.R.W., The Hearst Hydria pp. 251 f
Beazley, J.D., Hesperia vol. 12 (1943) no. 88
Mazzarino, Fra Oriente e Occidente (1947) pp. 313 ff
Shefton, BSA vol. 49 (1954) pp. 301,309 no. 9
SEG vol. 33 no. 314

    archival material:
    local script: Lakonia
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:other
writing direction:left > & < right  number of characters:36 comments:
Inscriptions labelling individual figures.

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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:

Αρκεσιλας. Σοφορτος. Σλιφομαχος. "ορυξο". Μαεν.

    translation:

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