Sentence:  On the one hand, the analogy between the image and the text that Hellenistic epigrams so often feature is reinforced; the “<WSD>anagraphic</WSD>” aspect of the composition, whose verbal-cum-inscriptional conclusion draws attention to the words' physical shape and form, is also a meterial, surface object, inviting a reading that conforms with the description of the statue supplied by the exegete, all focused on externals ("the boundaries between the stone and scroll are quite permeable and migration across them is easy"; Bing 1998,34). 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Pertaining to the representation of an existing item in words or symbols.