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- English: A gallery to display varieties of Greek writing
- Normaund: Eune gal'lie tchi mouontre des difféthentes manniéthes d'êcrithie en Grèc.
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Declaration of property during the Greek-Turkish population exchange (1923-1927).
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the big blue letters read "PTI MPER", which pronouces "PTI BER". This is a phonetic transcritpion of the French "petit beurre"
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Cavafy poem on wall
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Destination display on front of bus
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Start of Gospel according to John
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Mailbox
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Lord's Prayer in the Pater Noster Chapel in Jerusalem
Printed
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Front page of the Provisional Constitution of Greece (1822)
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Death or funeral announcement
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Greek Identity Card
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Greek Identity Card
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Cover of the official report of 1896 Athens Summer Olympics
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Excerpt from St. Nectarios book Sacred Orthodox Catechism.
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Excerpt from the Greek newspaper Empros (January 12, 1917)
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Anarchist poster on a wall in Thessaloniki
Signage
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Ikea poster at Athens Airport
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Recycling machine in Athens
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Recycling at Athens airport
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Lemesos.Keffalinias street
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Lemesos, Cyprus
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Pythion railway station
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"Our language is Tsakonian". A bilingual (Tsakonian and Standard Greek) sign in the town of Leonidio, Greece.
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Sign at military installation on Lesbos island, Greece.
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Sign in Naxos
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Street sign in Athens
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Road signage in Greece
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Messatis city hall, Achaea, Greece
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Public works in Achaia, Greece
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Athens airport
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Souvenirs, Monastiraki
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Sign in lake Stymfalia
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Tαμπέλα τέλους κατοικήμενης πέριοχης ελληνίκων δρόμων στήν Οβρυά Αχαΐας, Ελλάδα.
Handwritten
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Dower agreement (Proikosymfono) before wedding at Kastoria, Greece, (1905).
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The manuscript of the poem "Keriá" (Κεριά), Constantine P. Cavafy (Κωνσταντίνος Π. Καβάφης).
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Cavafy's manuscript for his poem "That's The Man" ("Outos Ekeinos" - 1909)
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Graffiti
Ancient
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Nikosthenes' signature (ΝΙΚΟΣΘΕΝΕΣ ΕΠΟΙΕΣΕΝ), detail of the belly. Side A from an Attic black-figured Nikosthenic amphora, ca. 520–510 BC
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Exekias' signature (ΕΧΣΕΚΙΑΣ ΕΠΟΙΕΣΕ) as potter, rotated 90° anticlockwise, detail from a scene representing Herakles and Geryon. Side A from an Attic black-figure amphora, ca. 550–540 BC.
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Fragment from the back of a Nike figurine bearing the signature of its maker, Hyperbolos
Inscribed
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Greek and latin plaque for Uberto Decembrio (who died on April 25 1427), on the facade of Sant'Ambrogio basilica in Milan, Italy
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the inscriptions are excerpts from the Funeral Oration of Pericles, 430 B.C. in honour of Athenians slain in the Peloponnesian War
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Roman Brige Meilixos Patra Greece
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sign in the Greek colony in Jerusalem
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γνῶθι σαυτόν, "gnothi sauton", "know yourself" in ancient Greek. Public building in Ludwigshafen, Germany
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Memorial for Greek and Australian soldiers fallen in the Battle of Crete 1941 (Rethymno, Crete, Greece)
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epitaph on Nikos Kazantzakis' grave