Funerary epigram for Charmos, who died at the age of nine years. Rectangular slab of yellowish limestone, with a projecting double molding above.
[ ] Kypros — Keryneia (Kyrenia) — 2nd/3rd c. AD — AJA 65 (1961) 132, 32 — Mitford, per litt. to SEG
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1 ἐννέ’ ἐγὼ ζήσας λυκαβάντων
       ἤματα μούνων, |
ἦλθον ὑποχθονίους ἀέλι̣-
        ον προλιπών, |
5 ἐν δάκρυσιν γενέταν κ̣[αὶ μ]ατ̣έ̣-
        ρα καὶ στοναχαῖσιν |
λείψας· οὔνομα δὲ ψι[λ]ὸς
        ἐρεῖ τίς ἔφυν. <α>ἰα[ῖ], |
Χάρμε  χρηστέ,  χαῖρε.
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