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description: Dedication on a spear-butt from the precinct of Apollo Korythos, near Kolonides
catalogue number: 596
LSAG reference: 206.03
date: c. 500 - 475 ?
object type: Spear-butt
region: PL
sub-region: Messenia
archaeological context: Kolonides
    publications:
Versakes, A. Delt. vol. 2 (1916) pp. 88 f, 114 f

    archival material:
    local script: Messenia
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top right  writing orientation:vertical
writing direction:< right  number of characters:21

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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:

Μεθαν̣[ιοι]
ανεθε[ν απ'?]
Αθαναι[ο̅ν τας?]
λαιδο[ς].

    translation:

not available