Support: Limestone sarcophagus with double slope lid surmounted by a platform for a half-statue (wide 0.95; long 2.26).

Layout: Inscribed on the Southern slope of the lid below the platform; awkward layout of the line that begins too high, lowers along the platform and raises again after it (long 1.42).

Letters: Height unknown; no characteristic letter.

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

Findspot: Found by Mrs Rowe in 1957 at Cyrene ➚: North Necropolis, courtyard 81, sarcophagus AI.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by the Thorns before 2005 in situ, in the North Necropolis. Not seen by IGCyr team

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

Apparatus

French translation

Aidôkhos.

English translation

Aidochos.

Italian translation

Aidochos.

Arabic translation

أيدوخوس

Commentary

Rowe's simple mention in capitals was duly registered in Fraser – Matthews 1987, p. 18, obviously upon J.M. Reynolds' advice.

The name Αἰδῶχος, although rare, is known in its koine form Αἰδοῦχος for a Cnidian at Miletus in the third century BC.

Names on sarcophagi and other funerary inscriptions are always at the nominative case and so is it in Rowe's transcription. The final nu in Thorn's drawing should be either a slip of the pen or the result of the stone becoming illegible.

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