SEG 56:551
Dedicatory epigram for a statue of a Theban general and signature of the Sicyonian sculptor Lysippos.  Statue base of gray limestone, broken on the right and at the back.
[ ] Boiotia — Prov. unkn. (Thespiai?) [Thebes Mus.] — ca. 372-364 BC — BCH 130 (2006) 63-81 — BE (2009) 259 (cf.) — SEG 64.406 (cf.)
1 [π]ατρὶς ἀριστεύουσ’ ἀλκῆι δορὸς Ἑλλά[δος ἄλλης]
[ε]ἴλετο τόνδ’ αὑτῆς ἡγεμόν’ ἐμ πολέ̣[μωι]
[ὅ]ς ποτε κινδύνοις πλείστοις Ἄρεως ἐ[ν ἀγῶσιν]
[τ]ὰς ἀφόβους Θήβας μείσζονας ηὐκλέ̣[ισεν]·
                  vacat
5  Ἱππίας Ἐροτιώ̣ν̣ιος Διὶ Σαώτη ⋮ ἀνέθη[κε]·
 Λύσιππος Σικυώ̣νιος ἐπόησε. vacat
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