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description: Fragmentary bronze plaque bearing a text concerning a war-loan
catalogue number: 680
LSAG reference: 221.18
date: c. 450 - 425 ?
object type: Plaque
region: PL
sub-region: Elis
archaeological context: Olympia
    publications:
Olympia vol. 5 no. 15
Roehl, H., IGA no. 114 and add.
SGDI no. 1162
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 114 no. 11
Olympia Museum no. 569

    archival material:
not available
    local script: Elis
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:? horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:46

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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:

[Ζ]ευξιαι κα<τ> τον π[ολεμον? - - - τεσ-
σα]ρακοντα κἐκατ̣[ον - - -].
Ζευξιαι̣ κα<τ> τον π[ολεμον? - - - τ]ρες μνας μαι ϝ[- - -].

    translation:

not available