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description: Signature of Koios on a bronze aryballos bought in Pyrgos
catalogue number: 659
LSAG reference: 220.01
date: c. 550 - 525
object type: Aryballos
region: PL
sub-region: Elis
archaeological context:
    publications:
Greenwell, JHS vol. 2 (1881) pp. 69 ff
Roehl, H., IGA no. 557
Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 pp. 254 no. 1
Olympia vol. 5 no. 629
SGDI no. 1176
Maximova, Les Vases plastiques (1927) pp. 155 f
Fitzwilliam Museum no. Gr. 15.1864

    archival material:
    local script: Elis
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:other
writing direction:< right  number of characters:13

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:

Ϙοιος μ' αποε̅σ̣εν.

    translation:

not available