Funerary epigram for Kapion, son of Dorko.  Large pedimental stele of gray-white marble; inscription above and below a relief depicting a standing male figure.
[ ] Boiotia — Thespiai — early 3rd c. BC? — MDAI(A) 56 (1931) 127, 10 (GVI I 1501) — ArchEph (1963) Chr., 24; pl. 5, XIV, a and b — cf. SEG 26.617; 31.522
above relief.1 Καπίων.
below relief.1 λοίσθια δὴ Δορκώ σε ὀλοὰν ἐπὶ νᾶα κιόντα
  τάλαινα μάτηρ, Καπίων, ἐπέμψατο·
οὐ γὰρ ἔθ’ ἅγε ὑπέδεκτο φίλον τέκνον, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ πόντωι
@@A)FEI/LETO H(/BAS A)/NQOS A)/GRIOS KLUDW/N.
5 πολλὰ μεθ’ ἁδυβόα δόνακος κυκλίοις ἐν ἀγῶσι
  ἄνακτα μέλψαντα ἐν χοροῖσιν Εὔιον.
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