Support: Limestone sarcophagus lid (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Cut on the plinth at the summit of the lid.

Letters: Height unknown; epsilon with three equal bars, tailless upsilon.

Date: Second half of fifth or first half of fourth century BC (context).

Findspot: Found by J. Cassels in 1953 at Cyrene ➚: North Necropolis, West of tomb N 241.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

French translation

(scil. Tombe) d'Euopidas.

English translation

(scil. Tomb) of Euopidas.

Italian translation

(scil. Tomba) di Euopidas.

Commentary

Cassels says that among the inscriptions on sarcophagi previously published «none is earlier than the fourth century BC and none can be much later than the third». He then adds the present one, which was also assigned to IV/III BC in SEG. However, judging from the photograph, the lettering seems earlier.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr056300 Epitaph

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