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Messenia
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description: Gravestone of Charop(i)nos and Aristodemos
catalogue number: 599
LSAG reference: 206.06
date: c. 500 - 475 ?
object type: Gravestone
region: PL
sub-region: Messenia
archaeological context:
    publications:
IG vol. v.1 no. 1356
SGDI no. 4668
DGE no. 66

    archival material:
    local script: Messenia
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:? horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:32 comments:
Punctuation sign used.

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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:

hιαρος
Χαροπ<ι>νος.
hιαρ[ος]
Αρισστοδαμος.

    translation:

not available