The Dipylon inscription is a short text written on an ancient Greek pottery vessel dated to c. 740 BC.

The text is written from right to left, with the individual letters mirror-shaped in comparison with the modern forms.

The fragmentary rest is believed to have been the beginning of the second verse of a distichon [Wikidata], but the exact interpretation is unclear.

B. Powell has argued that the final characters may represent a garbled snippet from the middle of an abecedarium (ΚΛΜΝ) by a second hand, someone learning to write.

The Nestor Cup, which also bears a verse inscription, was found in an excavation at the ancient Greek colony of Pithekoussai, on the island of Ischia, in Italy.