Funerary epigram for Athenodora.  Ionic column capital of Pentelic marble, converted into a funerary stele. Inscription below an incised pediment.
[ ] Attica — Athens — Panathenaic Stadium — 6th c. AD — IG III,2 1384 — E. Sironen, Inscriptions (1997) 236, 195 — SEMA 2671
pediment       ❦ {²rosa in circulo}² ❦
1 Ἀθηνοδώραν τὴν ἀγαθήν, τὴν Ἀττικήν,
τὴν Θαυμασίου γυναῖκα, τὴν φιλένθεον,
παιδία τεκοῦσαν καὶ τρέφουσαν νήπια
ἡ γ<ῆ> λαβοῦσα τὴν νέαν τὴν μητέρα
5 κατέχει ∙ γάλακτος δεομένων τῶν παιδί-
                     vacat                            ων.
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