Limestone funerary cippus (tomb marker)

Roman, Cypriot

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 162

This cippus is remarkable because of its diminutive size and its excessive decoration with bands of incised grooves. The poorly executed inscription reads: “Good Sosioros, farewell!”

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