Epigram on the tomb of Petosiris. Inscription painted on a column on the east face of the tomb.
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Egypt — Hermoupolis Magna (El Ashmūnein) — Tuna el-Gebel — mid-3rd c. BC — SEG 8.624-625 — G. Lefebvre, Tombeau de Petosiris 1 (1924) 24 — E. Bernand, Inscr. métriques (1969) 495, 125
| 1 | Πετόσειριν αὐδῶ τὸγ κατὰ |
| χθονὸς νέκυν, / | |
| νῦν δ’ ἐν θεοῖσι κείμενον μετὰ σοφῶν σοφός. / | |
| κεφάλαιον τούτων τῶν ἰαμβ̣είων | |
| 5 | εἰς ἀρ̣γυρίο<υ> λόγον (δραχμῶν) ͵ητογʹ |
| τούτου δὲ αὐ̣τ̣οῦ, ͵βψκʹ. |