Funerary epigram for Achilleus, a pantomine.  Acephalous herm of white marble, broken at the bottom; inscription on the front face, above and below a relief phallus.
[ ] Kos Isl. — Kos — Bourinna — 3rd c. AD — R. Herzog, KFF (1899) 102, 162 — W. Peek, GVI I (1955) 1806 — M. Segre, Iscr. di Cos (2007) EF 13
1 ἥρως Ἀχιλλεύς,
οὐ Θέτιδος, ἀλ-
λ’ Ἐλπίδος,  /
Κῷος τραγῳδός,
5 ἤιθεος χρηστὸς
τρόπους.  /
 {²phallus
7 ἕ̣[σ]τηκα τη[— —]
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