This inscription was published with an English translation and commentary by M.A. Harder in "Inscriptions from Halos" ( PDF ). The Greek text was composed in dactylic hexameters.
As the translation makes clear, the surviving portion of the inscription consists entirely of a list of names. The names are in the accusative case; one assumes that an explanation (and a verb) appeared in the missing start of the inscription. It seems that this is a list of mythological persons, all associated in some way with Thessaly. The names in lines 8-11 can be identified as the sons of Neleus, followed by by a list of the sons of Nestor. Later on, line 23 names the sons of Kretheus and Tyro, followed by a list of their descendants.
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. . . arrogant Antaios . . . Byzes . . .Gordios and the exceedingly mighty Metaios (?) . . . and the lord Koryphaios and Kelainos . . . Arkios and Antimenes and Euagoras . . . and the great Asterias and Alastor and . . . 10 and Daiochos (?) and Eurybios and Phradios . . . and Nestor and Ērētos and Epilaos and Stratios . . . and Periklymenos and Perseus, Echephron . . . Antilochos, Schedios, Peisistratos . . . Bouros, Teisamenos and . . . and . . . and the lord ... and Iphitos and . . . Knopos and Medon, Kodros and Nauklos . . . red-haired Leokritos and Damasiphron and . . . Anchialos with them and Alkimos and Diokles . . . Daiaochos and Bōros and Hippasos and Orchilochos . . . 20 Aphareus, Krithon and Euphrenor (?) and Kreon . . . and the lord Lykomedes and Kaletor . . . and the unconquerable Leokritos and Eurymedon . . . and the lord Amythaon and Aison and Pheres . . . and Admetos with them and godlike Eumelus . . .
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