Funerary epigram for the gladiator Mestrianus, called Milesi(o)s.  Fragmentary marble stele; inscription arranged around a central relief figure.
[ ] Mak. (Bottiaia) — Edessa — Varosi: Ypapanti — 2nd/3rd c. AD — D. Platarides, Ekthesis (1874) 13 — M. Dimitsas, Makedonia (1896) 16 — L. Robert, Gladiateurs (1940) 84, 20
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1    ἐγὼ Μειλήσις ἐκλήθην, παγα|νὸς
δὲ Μεστριανός, | πέν̣τ̣ε πυκτείσας
καὶ μηδένα λυ|πήσσας, νῦν δὲ
[λ]ε̣λύ̣πημαι καὶ |κ τῶν δίων Ν̣Η
5 [— —]Π̣ΑΚΕΙ∙ Ἀλε|ξάνδρα δὲ τῷ
[ἰδίῳ] ἀνδρὶ μνεί|ας χάριν ἐποίησ-
[ε. χαῖ]ρε πάν|τες οἱ παρο-
                  δεῖτ̣ε.
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