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description: Fragmentary bronze plaque from the temple of Apollo at Thermon
catalogue number: 705
LSAG reference: 227.07
date: c. 500 ?
object type: Plaque
region: NW
sub-region: Aitolia
archaeological context: Thermon
    publications:
IG vol. ix.1 edition 2 no. 91
Lejeune, Das Laphrion (1948) no. 112

    archival material:
    local script: Aitolia
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top right  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:< right  number of characters:27 comments:
Retrograde 3-bar sigma

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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:

- - -]οι[c.3]ες
ολυνπιχος̣
- - -]μι̣ον θρεμιον.

    translation:

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