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The Epitaph of Sicylus is the oldest surviving complete musical composition. Although the Hurrian Songs of ancient Mesopotamia are older, they are fragments rather than complete compositions. The epitaph probably dates from the 1st or 2nd century AD and is part of a Greek inscription written on a marble column placed over the tomb that Sicylus had built for his wife Euterpe, near Tralles (in Asia Minor), present-day Aydın, about 30 km from the coastal city of Ephesus.