Support: Lid of a rock-cut sarcophagus, with an entablature for a half-statue (dimensions not registered).

Layout: Inscribed on the plinth of the lid, to be seen from the road.

Letters: 0.12; widely open omega.

Date: Fourth or third century BC (lettering, context).

Findspot: Found in 2010 by Dobias-Lalou at Cyrene ➚: North Necropolis, in front of tomb N176 Cassels.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by J. Cassels in 1954 and approximately copied in situ, in the North Necropolis. Seen and studied by C. Dobias-Lalou in situ in 2010.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Kleidô.

English translation

Kleido.

Italian translation

Kleidò.

Commentary

This woman's name is new in Cyrenaica but built with the common suffix -ώ(ι) as a short form of compounds such as Κλείδαμος or Κλείδικος.

Cassels' copy published by the Thorns was not precise and C. Dobias-Lalou when publishing the inscription in 2013 had not yet brought together his sketch mentioned by the Thorns and her own copy.

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