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browsing: glyph used as "lambda" item number: 105 of 226 Lakonia back to browse list new search/browse     photographs: not available     description: Bronze statuette, bearing name of dedicator (?) from Kythera catalogue number: 533 LSAG reference: 199.21c.S447 date: c. 525 - 500 ? object type: Statuette region: PL sub-region: Lakonia archaeological context: Kythera     publications: Eckstein and Hafner, Antike Kleinkunst im Liebieghaus Liebieghaus no. 437     archival material:     local script: Lakonia inscription script analysis: writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:vertical writing direction:< right  number of characters:9 comments: Uncertain interpretation: all letters are correct Lakonian, except for E. The bronzeworker probably cut first E, but changed it to E retrograde, because the rest of the word was cut retrograde. Cf. J. Pl. Lak. 21c. p. 04 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:     translation: not available