Honorific inscription for the wrestler Heliodoros.  Round base of white marble, broken at the bottom; inscribed three times (nos. 882, 942, EV 247c).
[ ] Kos Isl. — Kos — ca. 1-50 AD — K. Höghammar, Sculpture (1993) 131, 21 — SEG 43.555 — M. Segre, Iscr. di Cos (1993) EV 247a
1                ὁ δᾶμος
   Ἡλιόδωρον Δαμοκρίτου,
      νικῶντα Ὀλύμπια
      παῖδας πάλαν,
5 ἐνκριθέντα πέμπτον
καὶ γε̣νόμενον̣ ἀνύφεδρον
ἀπτῶ̣τα πρᾶτον πάντων.
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