Marble plaque with epigram of Sopatros, ca. 2nd–3rd century
Marble plaque with epigram of Sopatros, Imperial, ca. 2nd–3rd century , Roman, Cypriot, Marble, Overall: 5 9/16 x 15 1/8 x 11/16 in. ( x x cm), Cesnola Inscriptions, The metrical inscription takes the form of an elegaic couplet (an hexameter and a pentameter), each divided into two lines. Such literary pretensions seem to be quite common among the funerary inscriptions of Roman Cyprus
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