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FREE ATHENS
INSCRIPTIONS OF ANCIENT GREECE
EPIGRAPHIC MUSEUM Epigraphic Museum of Athens houses the largest collection of ancient inscriptions, the primary historical sources that provide valuable information for all aspects of public and private life of antiquity. Most of the inscriptions derive from Attica, the birth place of democracy, but also from other areas of the ancient Greek world. Dating from the 8th cent. B.C. until Byzantine, Post Byzantine and later times, the 14078 inscriptions on stone are written mainly in ancient Greek language. A smaller number of inscriptions are written in Latin as well as in other languages (Phoenician, Hebrew and Ottoman).
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1 Tositsa St. - Athens T: +30 210 82 32 950 E-mail: ema@culture.gr Fb: Epigraphical Museum Athens Wp: epigraphicmuseum.gr
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