Marble Funerary Stele

Title: Marble Funerary Stele
Inventory Number: A0427
Date Acquired: 1954
Source: Unknown Donor
Description: Rectangular slab w inscription in capital letters in 5 lines:

Θ • Κ
ΑΓΑΙΟΣ ΤΕΡΤΙΟΣ
ΖΗΣΑΣ ΗΤΗ
ΠΕΝΤΕΚΟΝΤΑ
ΧΑΙΡΕ

To the gods of the underworld (θεοῖς καταχθονίοις / theois katakhthoniois)
Agaios Tertios
having lived 50 years
Greetings!

Only face well smoothed, back rough pecked, edges incompletely ground.
State of Preservation: Edges chipped ; lower r corner broken off to c 1/2 thickness. Considerable darkish incrustation.
Height: 26 cm
Width: 22.3 cm
Color: N6/ (light gray); incrustation 7.5YR 8/2-7/2 (pinkish white-pinkish gray).
Type: burial
Material: marble