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Lakonia
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description: Relief dedicated to the Tyndaridai by Pleistiadas, from Sellasia
catalogue number: 536
LSAG reference: 200.24
date: c. 525 ?
object type: Relief
region: PL
sub-region: Lakonia
archaeological context: Sellasia
    publications:
Tod and Wace, Cat. Sparta Museum no. 447
Furtwaengler, AM vol. 8 (1883) pp. 371 ff
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 99 no. 11
IG vol. v.1 no. 919
DGE no. 38
Langlotz, E., Frühgriechische Bildhauerschulen pp. 86,91
Wace, AE (1937) pp. 219
Bloesch, Agalma (1943) no. 21
Friedlaender, P., Hoffleit, H., Epigrammata no. 95
Sparta Museum no. 575
CEG no. 373

    archival material:
    local script: Lakonia
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:47

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:

Πλεστιαδας μ' α[νε̅θεκε]
Διος κοροισιν α[γαλμα],
Τινδα̣ριδαν δ[ιδυμο̅ν]
μανιν οπιδομ̣[ενος]

    translation:

not available