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description: Rim of a lebes dedicated by the Spartans at Olympia
catalogue number: 515
LSAG reference: 199.10
date: c. 600 - 550
object type: Lebes
region: PL
sub-region: Lakonia
archaeological context: Olympia
    publications:
Olympia vol. 5 no. 244
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 99 no. 12
IG vol. v.1 no. 1563
SEG vol. 11 no. 1204a
Olympia Museum no. 718+849

    archival material:
    local script: Lakonia
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:other
writing direction:left >  number of characters:18 comments:
One character unclear.

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 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:

- - - τ]οι Σπαρτιατα[ι Δι' Ολυ]νπιοι αν[εθεν].

    translation:

not available