Funerary epigram for a Pythagorean. Block of white marble with relief, damaged at the top. Now missing.
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Lydia — Philadelphia (Alaşehir) — early 1st c. AD — Keil-v. Premerstein, 1. Reise (1908) 34, 55 — Pfuhl-Möbius II (1979) 2087 — SGO 1 (1998) 476, 04/24/02
a, l. figure.1 | Ἀσωτία |
b, r. figure.1 | Ἀρετή |
c, below relief.1 | οὐ γενόμαν Σάμιος [κ]εῖνος ὁ Πυθαγόρας, |
ἀλλ’ ἐφύην σοφίῃ τἀτὸ λαχὼν ὄνο[μα], | |
[τὸν] πόνον {ον} ἐνκρείνας αἱρετὸν [ἐν βιότῳ] | |
[— — — — —]ρα[— — —]ουτο[— — — — —] |