Epitaph of Menandros and his family, partly in verse. Sarcophagus of white marble with gabled lid; inscriptions on three sides of the case.
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Makedonia (Mygdonia) — Thessalonike — E. necropolis — ca. 200-250 AD — Epigr. Thess. I (2006) 366, 4 — SEG 56.799 — Lokalen Sarkophage (2014) 163, 7
| face A, front.1 | ἐνθάδε κ[ε]ῖμ[αι Μέ]νανδρος ἐγώ, φίλοι, |
| ἡδὺ βιώσας / καὶ πολλοῖς μεταδούς, ἐν πᾶ- | |
| σι βροτοῖσι φιληθείς· / ταῦτα δὲ σοί, γαμετή, ἐν- | |
| τέλλομαι ∙ / τύμβον μου ποιῆσαι καὶ γράμμασι ταῦτ’ ἐπιγράψαι. | |
| 5 | Ἡδονὴ Μενάνδρῳ τῷ ἀνδρὶ καὶ Μένανδρος τῷ πατρὶ ἐκ τῶν ἐκείνου |
| καὶ αὑτοῖς ζῶντες ∙ καθὼς ἐνετείλατο. | |
| face B, left.1 | χαῖρε, |
| Μένανδρε. | |
| face C, right.1 | χαῖρε, πα- |
| ροδεῖτα. |