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Epeiros
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description: lead plaque from Dodona
catalogue number: 728
LSAG reference: 230.16 (12)
date: c. 450 - 425 ?
object type: Plaque
region: NW
sub-region: Akarnania & Epeiros
archaeological context: Dodona
    publications:
Euangelides, Mpeirotika Chronika (1935) pp. 245 ff no. 12,35,38,40
PAE (1952) pp. 299 ff no. 7(2),10(3),0
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 45 no. 15

    archival material:
    local script: Epeiros
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:left >  number of characters:30

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 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:

ε αποδαμον τυ-
χοιμι κα
επι ταν τχναν.

    translation:

not available