Support: Rock-cut sarcophagus, (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed on the vertical side of the lid.

Letters: Height unknown and shape of letters unknown.

Date: Perhaps Hellenistic (lettering).

Findspot: Copied by J. Thorn in 2002 at Cyrene ➚: North Necropolis, near tomb N362 Cassels, at the end of a terrace of sarcophagi called Terrace 1, in front of a tomb with four loculi.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Never seen by IGCyr team.

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

French translation

Polyaratos.

English translation

Polyaratos.

Italian translation

Polyaratos.

Commentary

The Thorns only give a description of the place and a diplomatic transcription of the preserved letters, with a suggestion about the date.

Names cut on sarcophagi are either at the nominative case, as a caption, or at the genitive, as owner's marks. So we might also have here a genitive, which would not be dialectal, ending in -ου.

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