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Funerary inscription in verse.
Greyish-white
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Line drawing; MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/139).
None.
Line 2 forms an accurate dactylic pentameter, line 3 an accurate iambic trimeter. Τhe loyal wife’s emulation of Penelope is a common theme in verse funerary inscriptions, cf. e.g.
For the name Βάλβιλλα, cf. MAMA XI 332 (1956/177,