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browsing: glyph used as "alpha" item number: 94 of 156 Lakonia back to browse list new search/browse     photographs: not available     description: Letters incised on reliefs and neck of a bronze krater from Vix, France catalogue number: 583 LSAG reference: 202.66 date: c. 530 - 520 ? object type: Krater region: PL sub-region: Lakonia archaeological context: Vix     publications: Joffroy, Rev. Phil. vol. 27 (1953) pp. 1 ff Joffroy, Mon. Piot. vol. 48 (1954) pp. 1 ff Amandry, RA vol. 43 (1954) pp. 125 ff Rumpf, Bulletin van de Vereenigng tot Bevordering der ... vol. 29 (1954) pp. 8 ff Rumpf, Charites (1957) pp. 127 ff SEG vol. 12 no. 483 Woodhead, CR (1955) no. 225 SEG vol. 32 no. 1082     archival material:     local script: Lakonia inscription script analysis: writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:other writing direction:left >  number of characters:32 comments: Orientation: letters to letters: some letters are horizontal, some vertical, and some on the slant. 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: α β γ δ ε ϝ ζ h θ ι κ - ϙ̣ σ τ ξ χ (repeated) 584%202.67%LSAG p407% Χιμαριδας ται Δαιδαλ- αι.     translation: not available