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Lakonia
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description: Lion attachment from a bronze vessel, dedicated by Aumnastos at the Samian Heraion
catalogue number: 525
LSAG reference: 199.16a.S446
date: c. 550
object type: Vessel
region: PL
sub-region: Lakonia
archaeological context: Samian Heraion
    publications:
Dunst, AM vol. 87 (1972) pp. 140-4

    archival material:
    local script: Lakonia
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:other
writing direction:< right  number of characters:26 comments:
Text runs in circle.

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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:

illustrated in LHJ's Archaic Greece (1976) illustration 14.
Ευμναστος ται hεραι Σπαρτιατας.

    translation:

not available