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Epeiros
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description: Leaden plaque bearing an inquiry by Hermon from the oracular precinct at Dodona
catalogue number: 725
LSAG reference: 230.13
date: c. 525 - 500 ?
object type: Plaque
region: NW
sub-region: Akarnania & Epeiros
archaeological context: Dodona
    publications:
Euangelides, PAE (1931) pp. 89 f

    archival material:
    local script: Epeiros
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:boustrophedon  number of characters:71

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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:

hερμο̅ν τινα
κα θεο̅ν ποτθεμ-
ενος γενεα ϝ-
οι γενοιτο εκ Κ-
ρε̅ταιας Ονα-
σιμος ποτ ται ε-
ασσαι.

    translation:

not available