An Archaic Inscription from Samothrace

by Nora Dimitrova and Kevin Clinton

Hesperia, Volume 72, Issue 2
Page(s): 235-239
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3182050
Year: 2003
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ABSTRACT:

The present paper introduces the earliest-known documentary inscription from Samothrace, tentatively dated to the late 6th century B.C. The document contains a name in the Ionic dialect, which serves as an additional argument that the Greek inhabitants of the island came from Samos.