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description: Painted inscription on a grave amphora from Eretria
catalogue number: 90
LSAG reference: 87.08
date: c. 625 (or later)
object type: Grave amphora
region: CG
sub-region: Euboia
archaeological context: Eretria
    publications:
Boardman, BSA vol. 47 (1952) no. 21,26f

    archival material:
not available
    local script: Eretria
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:other
writing direction:left >  number of characters:3 comments:
One letter uncertain. Boardman in BSA 47 (1952), 26 reads it as alpha, Wachter in "Non-Attic Greek Vases", p. 7 as epsilon.

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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.

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