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headstone was found above the Temple of Artemis at Sparta Orthia, early example of isopsephy. It says: ΟΡΘΕΙΗ ΔΩΡΟΝ ΛΕΟΝΤΕΥΣ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕ ΒΟΑΓΟΣ ΒΨΛ ΜΩΑΝ ΝΙΚΗΣΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΑΔΕ ΕΠΑΘΛΑ ΛΑΒΩΝ ΒΨΛ ΚΑΙ Μ ΕΣΤΕΨΕ ΠΑΤΗΡ ΕΙΣΑΡΙΘΜΟΙΣ ΕΠΕΣΙ ΒΨΛ Isopsephic elegiac verse, votive stele for a boy who won a competition in singing. Each verse adding up to ΄ΒΨΛ, that is 2730. |
| Date | 2nd century AD |
| Source | http://ellinikopneuma.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post_1057.html |
| Author | Unknown author |
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