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44. Inscription on a sarcophagus lid






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  ζῶσι

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They live

Fragment of a sarcophagus lid of red limestone, found and documented by Heberdey in 1895 at the foot of the mountain of Boubon on the East, in what seems to have been a necropolis. Schindler published the inscription from Heberdey's notes.

Height: 26 cm; length: 100 cm; depth: 35 cm; letters: 3 cm.

Schindler 1972, no. 17 (p. 45: Heberdey's drawing); BullÉp 1973, no. 461; Milner 1998, p. 2, no. 1.30.

Ζῶσι: see the commentary on no. 39.