Photographic Archive of Papyri in the Cairo Museum


P.Cair.Zen. 4 59532

34 x 39.5

CG59532; JE51532; SR0357

Two epitaphs on a dog

(?)

An epitaph in elegiacs, followed by another in iambics, on an Indian dog called Tauron who had been killed in defending Zenon against the attack of a wild boar, but not before he had laid his adversary low.

 

 

 


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