O Traveller, stop by me, and learn well who I was:
Bessarion's Most loved are, by name Krokodeilos,
But two and twenty summer was my whole life's span.
Entombed my body lies, beneath a mass of sand,
But my soul's gone heav'nwards, to Oblivion's land.
Some day, all mortal men in Hade Must reside;
This Thought Brings comfort to the shades of Those who've died.
Epitaph of Krokodeilos.
From late Imperial times, found at Saqqara. Egypt.
From the book: The Mysterious Fayum Portraits. Faces From Ancient Egypt.
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