Marble plaque with epigram of Sopatros, Imperial, ca. 2nd–3rd century A.D., Roman, Cypriot, Marble, Overall: 5 9/16 x 15 1/8 x 11/16 in. (14.1 x 38.4 x 1.7 cm), Cesnola Inscriptions, The metrical inscription takes the form of an elegaic couplet (an hexameter and a pentameter), each divided into two lines. Such literary pretensions seem to be quite common among the funerary inscriptions of Roman Cyprus
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Marble plaque, epigram, Sopatros, Imperial, ca, 2nd–3rd century .D, Roman, Cypriot, Marble, Overall, 5 9/16 x 15 1/8 11/16, 14.1 38.4 1.7 cm, Cesnola Inscriptions, metrical, inscription, takes, form, elegaic couplet, hexameter, pentameter, divided, two lines, literary pretensions, quite common, funerary inscriptions, Roman Cyprus
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