Funerary epigram for Asteris. Above the inscription the bust of a young man holding an open book in his right hand. Sarcophagus.
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Dalmatia — Salona (Solin) — 2nd/3rd c. AD? — cf. CIL 3, pp. 2136; 2326; 2328(126) — ArchPap 13 (1938) 72-74 (diptych) — GVI 855
| diptych.col. I.1 | ἀσε- |
| βῶν | |
| καὶ | |
| (π)ῇ | |
| 5 | (ἐ)μὲ |
| col. II.6 | (τ)άσ(σ)ων |
| (ἐ)μοὶ | |
| δί- | |
| (κ)ην | |
| 10 | δι- |
| δοίη. | |
| below relief.1 | D(is) M(anibus) |
| <κ>οῦρον πρωθήβην, σφετέρων | |
| μέγ’ ἄγαλμα τοκήων, / | |
| Ἀστέριν, ἐκ βιοτῆς | |
| 5 | βάσκανος ἦρ’ Ἀίδης· / |
| κεῖται δ’ ἐν ληνῷ τῇδ’, | |
| ᾗ λεύσεις, παροδεῖτα, / | |
| δάκρυα καὶ στοναχὰς | |
| οἷσι λιπὼν γενέταις. / | |
| 10 | εὐθύμει, Ἀστέρει· πολλοὶ |
| πρὸ σοῦ, πολλοὶ μετὰ σέ· | |
| οὐδεὶς ἀθάνατος. |