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browsing: glyph used as "iota" item number: 110 of 170 Aitolia back to browse list new search/browse     photographs: not available     description: Inscriptions on the metopes from the temple of Apollo at Thermon catalogue number: 700 LSAG reference: 226.02 date: c. 625 ? object type: Architectural element region: NW sub-region: Aitolia archaeological context: Thermon     publications: Soteriades, EA (1903) pp. 71 ff AD vol. 2 Koch, AM vol. 39 (1914) pp. 237 ff Koch, RM vol. 30 (1915) pp. 111 f Payne, BSA vol. 27 (1925-6) pp. 124 ff Payne, NC pp. 160 f no. 96.3 IG vol. ix.1 edition 2 no. 86 Lejeune, REA vol. 47 (1945) pp. 111 ff     archival material:     local script: Aitolia inscription script analysis: writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:horizontal writing direction:left > & < right  number of characters:19 comments: * 2 metopes L>, 1 metope <R * Retrograde eccentric iota - ?137 with extra stroke (looks like reversed 125) * another metope in Corinthian script (therefore not included here). 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: Χελιδϝο̅ν. Χαριτες. Ϝιρις.     translation: not available