Funerary epigram from a polyandrion. Corinthian script, stoichedon and boustrophedon. Limestone blocks from the upper course of the façade of a large public monument.
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Epeiros — Ambrakia (Arta) — stoich., boustr. — ca. 550 BC or shortly after — SEG 41.540A, l. 2 — SMEA 33 (1994) 101-106 (A.C. Cassio)
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