Funerary inscription in hexameter and elegiacs for doctor Epaphrode<i>tos; 22; found at Stratonikeia, not Smyrna, not at Stratonikeia in Lydia: Peek, MDAI(A) 56, 1931, 123-124, no. 7; Peek, GVI I 1934; Pfuhl & Möbius 2112 (PH); Robert, Gnomon 30, 1959, 19 (= OM III 1658); BE 1959:397; Parlasca, MDAI(R) 77, 1970, 130, Taf. 59, 2 (PH); BE 1971:618; Wilhelm, GE 78-79, no. 100; SEG 30, 1280; *IStratonikeia 1202.  
[ ] IStr 1202
1 Κυπρογένους Παφίης ὁ ἐπώνυ-
μος ἐνθάδε κεῖμαι, ἠΐθεος κοῦρο[ς,]
προλιπὼν ὥραν βιότοιο.  θρέψας μοι Κάρπος στήλην μνήμης ἐπέθη-
κεν, πάντα ὀλέσας καρπὸν τῶν ἐπ’ ἐμο[ὶ]
5 καμάτων.  πολλοὺς Ἐπαφρόδε<ι>τε σ[ὺ]
μὲν νοσέοντας ἔγειρας, εἰητρὸς
γεγαὼς πᾶσιν ἑταιρότατος, ἀμ-
φότερον τέχνην τ’ ἀγαθὸς καὶ ἤθεα
κεδνός, τῆς γὰρ ἐπιστήμης μαλλο-
10 φρονεῖν ἔμαθες· ἀλλ’ οὔτοι σ<⁶⁶εαυ>⁶⁶τὸ[ν]
νούσου ἐδυνήσαο σῶσαι, ἰητρῶν γὰρ
ἔφυ Μῦρα κραταιοτέρα.
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