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browsing: glyph used as "pi" item number: 32 of 44 Akarnania back to browse list new search/browse     photographs: not available     description: Gravestone of Prokleides from No. Arkanania (Anaktorion?) catalogue number: 718 LSAG reference: 229.08 date: c. 475 - 450 ? object type: Gravestone region: NW sub-region: Akarnania & Epeiros archaeological context: Anaktorion     publications: Roehl, H., IGA no. 329 IG vol. ix.1 no. 521 Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 106 SGDI no. 3175 Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 45 no. 14 DGE no. 140 Friedlaender, P., Hoffleit, H., Epigrammata no. 64 Buck, C.D., The Greek Dialects edition 1 no. 95 Peek, W., Griechische Versinschriften vol. i no. 70 IG vol. ix.1 edition 2 no. 214 CEG no. 142     archival material:     local script: Akarnania inscription script analysis: writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:? horizontal writing direction:left >  number of characters:70 comments: 1. note disagreements with Roehl copy annotated in archive page J.NW.Akarnania.08.p01. 2. in view of 1., exceptional forms for beta and heta taken as product of transcription and therefore assigned to nearest relatives. 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: Προκλειδας τ̣οδ̣ε σαμα κεκλ- ε̅σεται ενγυς οδοιο, hος περι τας αυ̣το γας θανε β̣αρναμενος.     translation: not available