Epitaph and funerary epigram for the gladiator Vitalis. Stele without pediment; in a framed field, a gladiator with fifteen+ victory wreaths.
[ ]
Caria — Stratonikeia — Börükçü — 3rd c. AD? — EA 39 (2006) 107, 4 — SEG 56.1212
above relief.1 | Βιτᾶλις |
relief (shield).2 | πά(λου) α |
below relief.3 | [ὁ θ]ρ̣ασὺς ἐν πυγμαῖς Βιτάλιος ἐνθάδε |
[κε]ῖται / ὃν κτάνεν ἐν σταδίοις | |
5 | [ἰδ]ίαις παλάμαις Πολυδεύκης / [πὺξ ἀ]- |
[γα]θ̣ός, κρατερός, ἄξιος οὐνό̣[ματος]. | |