A funerary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/stele" class="extiw" title="w:stele">stele</a> or gravestone of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hoplite" class="extiw" title="w:hoplite">hoplite</a> (foot soldier), which was originally painted. The inscription at the top of the stele contains letters from the alphabets of both <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens" class="extiw" title="w:Athens">Athens</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinth" class="extiw" title="w:Corinth">Corinth</a>, which was typical of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megara" class="extiw" title="w:Megara">Megara</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/city-state" class="extiw" title="w:city-state">city-state</a> between the two. It reads: "I speak, I, Pollis dear son of Asopichos, not having died a coward, with the wounds of the tattooers, yes myself". The "tattooers" referred to were probably the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thracians" class="extiw" title="w:Thracians">Thracians</a>, who lived north of Greece.
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