Funerary epigram for Mnasitheos (oriented vertically), and signature of
the sculptor Philourgos; Boiotian alphabet, stoichedon. Marble stele with anthemion and relief representation of a young man holding a cock.
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Boiotia — Akraiphia — ca. 520-510 BC — SEG 43.203 (excerpt); cf. 56.508 — ArchEph (1999) 81-125 — MDAI(A) 115 (2000) 83-113
A, below cock.1 | Μνασιθείοˉ ∶ μνε͂μ’ εἰ- |
μ̣ὶ ἐπ’ ὁδο͂ι ∶ καλόν· | |
ἀλὰ μ’ ἔθεˉκεν ∶ | Πύρι- | |
χος ∶ ἀρχαίεˉς ∶ ἀντὶ | |
5 | φιλεˉμοσύνεˉς. |
B, predella.6 | Φιλο͂ργος ⋮ ἐποίεˉσ- |
εν. |