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browsing: glyph used as "lambda" item number: 74 of 178 Elis back to browse list new search/browse     photographs: not available     description: Bronze plaque with a decree concerning one Deukalion catalogue number: 669 LSAG reference: 220.08 date: c. 500 - 475 ? object type: Plaque region: PL sub-region: Elis archaeological context: Olympia     publications: Olympia vol. 5 no. 11 Roehl, H., IGA no. 113 Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 294 SGDI no. 1153 Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 112 no. 6 DGE no. 415 SEG vol. 11 no. 1186 Buck, C.D., The Greek Dialects edition 1 no. 63 SEG vol. 31 no. 360 Olympia Museum no. 261     archival material:     local script: Elis inscription script analysis: writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:? horizontal writing direction:left >  number of characters:100 comments: Punctuation sign used. Multiple variants of alpha. 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: α ϝρατρα τοιρ Χαλαδροιρ : και Δευ- καλιο̅νι· : Χαλαδριον εμε αυτον και γονον : ϝισοπροξενον ϝισοδαμιοργον, ταν δε γαν̣ εχεν ταν εν Πισαι. αι δε τις συλαιε̅, ϝερεν αυτον πο<τ> τον Δια, αι με̅ δαμο̅ι δοκεοι.     translation: not available