Support: White marble base with plain mouldings above and below on three sides, slightly chipped off at left (w: 0.685 × h: 0.325 × d: 0.44).

Layout: Inscribed in two lines on front face (w: 0.585 × h: 0.155 × d: 0.415).

Letters: 0.03.

Date: Perhaps second century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1979 at Cyrene ➚: probably from the South Necropolis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 and again in 1983 at Cyrene ➚: inside archaeological enclosure North of Caesareum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Apollodôros fils d'Euagoros.

English translation

Apollodoros son of Euagoros.

Italian translation

Apollodoros figlio di Euagoros.

Commentary

With this ending at the genitive, the father's name was not the more usual form in -αγόρας, but a variant in -άγορος; such variant names are rare elsewhere and unknown for Cyrenaeans, but for a visitor at Philae (SEG, 31.1523) who seems to be a Cyrenaean.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr086600 Epitaph

Fig. 2. Drawing of igcyr086600 Epitaph

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