Metrical dedication to Apollo Ptoios. Fragment of a terracotta plaque, inscribed before firing. Epichoric alphabet, “false” boustrophedon.
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Boiotia — Akraiphia — Ptoion: Sanct. of Apollo Ptoios (Perdikovrysi) — ca. 550-525 BC? — J. Ducat, Les Kouroi du Ptoion (1971) 413, 262 — SEG 29.449 — CEG 2, pp. 302-303 (add. et corr.)
1 | καλϝὸν ἄγαλμα ϝάνακτι ϝ[εκαβόλοι Ἀ]- |
[πόλονι ∶ / –]ορίδας ποίϝεσέ μ’ Ἐχέστροτ- | |
ος· αὐτὰρ ἔπεμφσαν ∶ / [– ⏔ – ⏒] | |
[⏒ – ⏔ – ⏔]ον Πτοιε͂ϝι, ∶ / τὸς τύ, ϝάναχ- | |
5 | ς, φεφύλαχσο, δίδοι δ’ ἀρ<ε>τάν [τε καὶ ὄλβον]. |