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description: Gravestone of Rhipis (?), from Koskina near Olympia
catalogue number: 678
LSAG reference: 220.16
date: c. 475 - 450 ?
object type: Gravestone
region: PL
sub-region: Elis
archaeological context: Koskina
    publications:
Olympia vol. 5 no. 718
Roehl, H., IGA no. 112a and add
SGDI no. 1165
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 111 no. 5
DGE no. 421

    archival material:
not available
    local script: Elis
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:15

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:

Ριπιρ
εγο̅
Ξεν-
ϝαρε-
[ορ].

    translation:

not available