Dedicatory/honorary inscription in elegiacs to Meter Theon
Smyrnaike for Hermodoros, by Euchrotion, on base; c. 1/2; found
at Smyrna: Fontrier, BCH 3, 1879, 328; Fontrier, Mous. III 1-2,
1878-1880, 128, no. 166 (165); Hellenica 2, 109-113; Pleket,
Epigraphica II 57-58, no. 59; Hellenica 11-12, 558-561; Petzl,
ZPE 18, 1975, 315-316; Peek, ZPE 21, 1976, 146; SEG 26, 1303;
*ISmyrna 743.
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ISmyrn 743
| 1 | Ἑρμόδωρον καθορ[ᾶτ’] |
| ἐμὲ χάλκιον ὧδε, | |
| φίλοι, γύμνιχον ἐν παι- | |
| δὶ κυνηγεσίων τὸν ἄρι̣- | |
| 5 | στον, αὐτὸν θηρεύσαν- |
| τα Εὐχρωτίῳ τόνδε λα- | |
| γωόν· δεσποίνῃ τε φέρω | |
| τοῦτο τὸ δῶρον ἐγώ· εἴ | |
| τίς τοι μεταθοῖ με ἢ ἐν- | |
| 10 | τεῦθεν μετενένκῃ, δώ- |
| [σ]ει Μητρὶ θεῶν Σμυρ- | |
| [να]ϊκῇ †τελετω† χρυσοῦς κβʹ. |