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description: Block inscribed with a victory-dedication (?) from Magoula
catalogue number: 561
LSAG reference: 201.48
date: c. 500 - 475
object type: Block
region: PL
sub-region: Lakonia
archaeological context: Magoula
    publications:
Tod and Wace, Cat. Sparta Mus. no. 73
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 99 no. 10
IG vol. v.1 no. 238
Sparta Museum no. 611
CEG no. 377

    archival material:
    local script: Lakonia
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:71

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:

[- - - χαι?]ροσα ο̣ρεν δ' [- - -
- - -]τ' αυτος νικασ[ας - - -
- - - τα]χυτατος εδ̣[ραμε? - - -
- - -]ε χαριζομεν[ος - - -
- - -] ενθαδε παις π[ρατος? - - -
- - - τ]οι και {ε}ευφρον̣[εοσα? - - -
- - - παι Δ]ιος αιγιοχο.

    translation:

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