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description: Bronze plaque bearing part of a law on aliiens and the Olympic ritual
catalogue number: 663
LSAG reference: 220.04
date: c. 500 ?
object type: Plaque
region: PL
sub-region: Elis
archaeological context: Olympia
    publications:
Olympia vol. 5 no. 5(+6?)
Roehl, H., IGA no. 115
SGDI no. 1158
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 113 no. 12
Olympia Museum no. 130 (+565?)

    archival material:
    local script: Elis
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:? horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:100

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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:

[- - -] ο δε κα ξενος επαι μ<ο>λοι εν τἰα[ρον? - - -
- - - ? ϝαρ]ιχο̅ς κα θυσας επι το̅ι βο̅μο̅ι τα π̣[- - -
- - -]ι αποδος ενε̅βεο̣[ι] ο ξενος· αι δ[ε? - - -
- - - δα]ρχμας αποτινοι το̅ι Δι Ολυν[πιο̅ι - - -
- - -]οα δο̅ο̅ν ταδεκυαιυσεβοικα̣[- - -
- - -] κατ τ̣α πατρια.

    translation:

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