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description: Manumission stele from Tainaron
catalogue number: 569
LSAG reference: 201.53
date: c. 450 - 430 ?
object type: Stele
region: PL
sub-region: Lakonia
archaeological context: Tainaron
    publications:
IG vol. v.1 no. 1228
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 101 no. 19
GIBM no. 139
DGE no. 52(1)
SEG vol. 11 no. 939

    archival material:
    local script: Lakonia
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:57

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:

ανεθε̅[κε]
το̅ι Ποhοιδα[νι]
Θεαρ̣ε̅ς̣
Κ̣λ̣εογενε̣̅.
[ε]φορος
Δαιοχος̣
ε̣π̣α̣κ̣ο<ο̅> Αριο̅<ν>, Λυο̅ν.

    translation:

not available