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Inscriptions in their variety and profusion are an important means of gauging everyday life in Classical Greece, especially such more formal aspects as were deserving of recording. This qualification, however, does not prevent some obscene pederastic rock-carvings on the island of Thera from being the earliest epigraphic texts from the Classical period (c. 8th century bce), in a form of the alphabet still strongly marked by its Phoenician source. In a formal vein there is ample documentation of a business, financial, and legal type, such as regulations for building projects, contracts for medical services (e.g., the Cypriot bronze tablet of ...(100 of 12223 words)

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