The carefully cut ornament includes part of a downward-pointed lotus with five thin leaves, a concave leaf-like ending to the lower part of a volute, and a rounded part above. The finial projected sideways from the shaft. The leaf-like volute end continues an archaic tradition (cf. Cat. 46 Figs. 150-151), but the thin irregular lotus leaves are post-archaic. The overall composition was probably like Cat. 45 (Figs. 148-149) and the stele from Daskylion (Borchhardt, Epichorische Reliefs, pl. 44:1, here Fig. 152).

This inscription and this grave stele are of [name lost] the son of Artimus. Now who to this inscription [or this grave stele does damage . . .]

Terming the inscription “one of the most representative and careful examples of Lydian epigraphy,” Gusmani concurs in dating the fragment to the later 5th or 4th C. B.C.

”Local” marble; reddish accretion.

Preserved are center and lower r. parts of anthemion (finial) and top of shaft with first two lines of inscription. Split diagonally and at lower edge; part of l. side missing. Back very roughly dressed if at all.