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browsing: glyph used as "wau" item number: 10 of 16 Korkyra back to browse list new search/browse     photographs:     description: Epitaph on the tomb of Menekrates, Korkyra catalogue number: 743 LSAG reference: 234.09 date: c. 625 - 600 ? object type: Funerary monument region: NW sub-region: Ionian Islands archaeological context: Korkyra     publications: Roehl, H., IGA no. 342 Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 98 IG vol. ix.1 no. 867 SGDI no. 3188 Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 47 no. 26 DGE no. 133(1) Friedlaender, P., Hoffleit, H., Epigrammata no. 26 Buck, C.D., The Greek Dialects edition 1 no. 93 Peek, W., Griechische Versinschriften vol. i no. 42 ML no. 4 CEG no. 143     archival material:     local script: Korkyra inscription script analysis: writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:horizontal writing direction:< right  number of characters:100 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: Text inscribed in single line around tomb. ⋮ hυιου Τλασιαϝο Μενεκρατεος τοδε σαμα ⋮ Οιανθεος γενεαν, τοδε δ' αυτοι δαμος εποιει. ⋮ ες γαρ προξενϝος δαμου φιλος· αλλ' ενι ποντοι ⋮ ολετο, δαμοσιον δε καϙον ρο[ ˘ ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ ¯ = 15].⋮ Πραξιμενες δ' αυτο̄ι γ[αια]ς απο πατριδος ενθον ⋮ συν δαμ[ο]ι τοδε σαμα κασιγνετοιο πονεθε.⋮     translation: not available