Funerary inscription in Greek and Latin, partly in elegiacs, for son and father, both named Marcellinus, by Philoumene, with penalty for violating grave; 3b; found at Ephesos: Wood, App. 7, no. 1; Kaibel 297a; CIL III 6082; ILS 8245; Peek, GVI I 654; *IEph 2103.  
[ ] IEph 2103
1 [—]ι̣ου Παν[—]
λος Σεβ(αστοῦ) ἀπελεύθερος ἀπὸ ταβλαρί(ων)
ἑπταέτους ὁ τάφος παιδὸς
πατρός τε σὺν αὐτῷ·
5 Μαρκελλεῖνος ἔην ἀμφοτέροι[ς]
ὄνομα·
ἄλλοι μὲν στεφάνοισι, χοαῖς,
δακρύοις τε καὶ ᾠδαῖς
τειμῶσιν τὸν σόν, Μαρκελλεῖνε,
10 τάφον·
ἀντὶ χοῶν δ’ ὁ πατὴρ ψυχὴν
ἰδίαν ἐπέδωκεν,
κοινὸν ἔχειν ἐθέλων οὔνομ[α]
καὶ θάνατον·
15 hanc aran si quis temptaverit trans-
ferre aut litteram excidere aut alia
aliqua figura fecerit, dabet fisco poena[e]
nominae (sestertium) X m(ilia) n(ummum), haec ara defend[e]-
tur ab iis qui sunt in tabulario Ephes[i·]
20 Φιλουμένη ἀνδρὶ ἰδίῳ καὶ τέκν[ῳ]
ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων.
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