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Kephallenia
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description: Bronze disk dedicated to the Kioskouroi by Exoides, probably from Kephallenia
catalogue number: 737
LSAG reference: 234.05
date: c. 550 - 525 ?
object type: Disk
region: NW
sub-region: Ionian Islands
archaeological context:
    publications:
Froehner, RA vol. 18 edition 1 (1891) pp. 45 ff
IG vol. ix.1 no. 649
BMC Bronzes no. 3207
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 118 no. 2
DGE no. 430
Jacobsthal, Diskoi (1933) no. 22
Webster, CQ vol. 33 (1939) no. 178
Friedlaender, P., Hoffleit, H., Epigrammata no. 43
Moretti, L., Iscrizioni agonistiche greche no. 6
SEG vol. 14 no. 470
CEG no. 391

    archival material:
    local script: Kephallenia
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: other  writing orientation:other
writing direction:< right  number of characters:66 comments:
text spirals inwards from rim

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:

Εχσοιδα μ' ανεθε̅κε Διϝος Ϙοροιν μεγαλοιο ⋮ χαλκεον hο̅ι νικασε Κεφαλανας μεγαθυμος.

    translation:

not available