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browsing: glyph used as "delta" item number: 45 of 62 Arkadia back to browse list new search/browse     photographs: not available     description: Bronze plaque recording sums of money deposited by Xouthias son of Philachaiios with Athena Alea at Tegea catalogue number: 639 LSAG reference: 216.27 date: c. 450 ? object type: Plaque region: PL sub-region: Arkadia archaeological context: Tegea     publications: IG vol. v.2 no. 159 Comparetti, Ann. vol. 2 (1916) pp. 246 ff Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 121 f no. 1 Buck, C.D., CP vol. 20 (1925) pp. 133 f SIG edition 3 no. 1213 DGE no. 57 SEG vol. 11 no. 1083     archival material:     local script: Arkadia inscription script analysis: writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal writing direction:left >  number of characters:100 comments: Two contracts, one cancelled by deliberate erasure 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: Ξουθιαι παρκαθε̅κα το̅ι Φιλαχα- ιο τζετρακατιαι μναι αργυριο. ει μ- εν κα ζο̅ε̅, αυτος ανελεσθο̅· αι δε κ- α με̅ ζο̅ε̅, τοι υιοι ανελο̅σθο̅ τοι γνε̅- σιοι επει κα ε̅βασο̅ντι πεντε ϝετε- α. ει δε κα με̅ ζο̅ντι, ται θυγατερες ανελο̅σθο̅ ται γνε̅σιαι· ει δε κα με̅ [ζο̅]ντι, τοι νοθοι ανελο̅σθο̅· ει δε κα με̅ νοθοι ζο̅ντι, τοι{ς} ασιστα ποθικ- ες ανελο̅σθο̅· ει δε κ' ανφιλεγο̅ντ<ι>, οι Τεγεαται διαγνοντο̅ κα(τ) τον Θεσμον.     translation: not available