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browsing: glyph used as "lambda" item number: 28 of 78 Eretria back to browse list new search/browse     photographs: not available     description: Grave-pillar of Pleistias, from Eretria catalogue number: 99 LSAG reference: 88.17 date: c.500 - 475 ? object type: Pillar region: CG sub-region: Euboia archaeological context: Eretria     publications: Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 75 no. 3 IG vol. xii-9 no. 286 Volkmann, Klio vol. 31 (1938) pp. 244 f IG vol. xii suppl. pp. 186 Friedlaender, P., Hoffleit, H., Epigrammata pp. 77 Peek, W., Griechische Versinschriften vol. i pp. 862 CEG no. 77     archival material: not available     local script: Eretria inscription script analysis: writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal / vertical writing direction:left >  number of characters:79 comments: Name on top of the narrow side. 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: Σπαρτα μεν π̣ατρις εστιν, εν ευρυχ- οροισι Αθανα̣ις εθραφθε̅· θανατο δε ενθαδε μοιρ' εχιχ̣ε. Πλειστιας.     translation: not available