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Cesnola, Luigi Palma di [Editor]
A descriptive atlas of the Cesnola collection of Cypriote antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Band 3) — New York, 1903

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Plate CXXXIV.

i. On a fragment of calcareous stone, with a head and other portions of a human body in
relief. From Golgoi. Inscription in three lines, incomplete at the ends. Characters y% to S/$ inch
high ; all plain except at broken end.

i. o. ua. si., o. ro. a. te. (or mi.) . . .

2. o. ne. te. ke. to. i. ti. . . .

3. to. a. fto. to. ni. i. . . .

1. 'Ova.(Ti(i>po[s] '\6r) (or 'Kfu) ■ ■ ■

1. 6v49rjKe to>i 6i[o>i\

3. TOi 3Xiro[k)\o3vi l(v) [rv)(ai].

" Onasiorus [son of?] Athe . . . (or, Ami . . .) offered to the god Apollo in [good fortune]."

Published from the original by Hall, ubi supra, X, No. 23; XI, p. 222. Cesnola, Cyprus,
Plate 2, No. 3.

2. On the top of a seat or foot-stool of calcareous stone, which is shown in side elevation
in Vol. I, PL LXXXV, No. 560, and in a cut in Cesnola's Cyprus, p. 159. From Golgoi. On
the side of the stool is a Chimaera, between two large rosettes. Looking at the cut just referred
to, the inscription, if represented, would be on the top, and upside-down to the spectator. Inscrip-
tion is in eleven lines, cut with the characters enclosed in irregular or imperfect squares, formed
by the crossing of horizontal and perpendicular (or slightly oblique) incised lines. Characters from
Y\ to 7/& inch high, in all stages of preservation and defacement. Space occupied by the inscrip-
tion, 7x9 inches.

The first three rows from the top have each seven squares or characters, the rest six each.
There are a number of empty squares on the left. A crack across the stone (the stool is hollow,
as if formed of three slabs, though it is in one piece) has damaged some of the characters. As
 
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