Funerary epigram for the gladiator Stephanos. Stele of bluish marble, broken at the top; eight wreaths in two rows below the inscription. Now missing.
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Lydia — Philadelphia (Alaşehir) — 2nd c. AD — Keil-v. Premerstein, 1. Reise (1908) 35, 57 — L. Robert, Gladiateurs (1940) 163, 141 — SGO 1 (1998) 479, 04/24/04
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| ὀλίγων ἐπάκουσον, | |
| παροδῖτα· / οὐ γὰρ ἀντί- | |
| παλος ἔδα<μ>έν με τὸν | |
| ἄθλιον οὐδ’ ἐδύνατο. / | |
| 5 | ε̣ἰ δὲ νόσῳ προδο- |
| [θ]εὶς ὑπὸ Μύρης ὧδε | |
| ἐφονεύθην, / v ὄγδον πυ- | |
| κτεύσας ἔσχα τέ- | |
| λ̣ος θανάτου, / τοῦτ’ ἔ- | |
| 10 | [φ]ερεν Στεφάνῳ πρὸς |
| Φιλαδελφέων ἄστυ | |
| κ̣ατελθεῖν. / συνφέρου- | |
| σα Στεφάνῳ τῷ ἰδίῳ ἀν- | |
| δρὶ μνείας χάριν. |