Support: Lid of rock-cut sarcophagus, limestone (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed on the sloping side of the lid, in a shallow recess: w: 1 × h: 0.56 measured from the photograph.

Letters: 0.08, very regularly cut; still slightly slanting sigma.

Date: Third to second centuries BC (lettering).

Findspot: First seen by H.F. De Cou in 1911 at Cyrene ➚: North Necropolis, on terrace above and west of tomb N 22.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by J. Cassels in 1954 in situ. Seen before 2006 by the Thorns in situ, in the North Necropolis. Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Neussis.

English translation

Neussis.

Italian translation

Neussis.

Arabic translation

نيوسيس.

Commentary

The name should be read as a masculine with recessive accent Νεῦσσις. Contra Robinson (with explanation in the addenda and corrigenda) and Fraser – Matthews 1987, p. 126, who thought it to be a women's name. Whereas masculine names are commonly built with a suffix -ι- in Cyrenaica, feminine names in -ίδ- are quite unknown before the end of the Hellenistic period. And this is the more so that Νεῦσσος is usual in the region.

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