Support: White marble base with plain moulding above and below, broken off at left back, chipped off at right and at upper moulding (now lost); the front face is peeling, especially below so that probably two lines are now lost (w: 0.665 × h: 0.24 × d: 0.42).

Layout: Inscribed on front face (w: 0.655 × h: 0.13).

Letters: 0.02; dotted theta, slanting mu and sigma, symmetrical nu, rho with small loop, slightly smaller circular letters.

Date: Late fourth or early third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found at Cyrene ➚: plausibly from one Necropolis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 234. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 and in 1982 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Philôn a fait faire ce (scil. monument) pour son épouse Arkhô comme souvenir de sa valeur [---].

English translation

Philon laid down this (scil. monument) for his wife Archo as a record of her virtue [---].

Italian translation

Philon pose questa (scil. monumento) per sua moglie Archò in memoria della sua virtù [---].

Commentary

The poetic word συνόμευνος is a super-compound based upon two compounds in literary texts: σύνευνος and ὅμευνος.

Metrical analysis: the poem was made of one hexameter at text-lines 1-2, followed probably by a pentameter (or another hexameter) now lost at text-lines 3-4.

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Fig. 1. Face of gvcyr004 Epitaph

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