Support: Rock-cut tomb with five loculi and a plain facade (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed in two sections on the facade just above the loculi (one name for each loculus).

Letters: Height unknown, deeply and carefully cut; alpha with low bar, slanting mu and sigma, smaller circular letters, rho with smaller loop in B than in A; the lettering is very similar in both sections, however the guideline for B is no extension of that for A, but is placed slightly higher up.

Date: Probably second half of fourth century BC (context, lettering).

Findspot: First seen and copied by J. Cassels in 1954 at Cyrene ➚: West Necropolis, tomb W128.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen before 2001 by J. Thorn in situ in the West Necropolis. Seen in 2002 by G. D'Addazio in situ. Seen and photographed in 2010 by E. Rosamilia in situ, whence Dobias-Lalou's present edition.

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

Apparatus

French translation

a) (scil. Tombe) de Kallippos et Myrô.

b) (scil. Tombe)d'Epikrita.

English translation

a) (scil. Tomb) of Kallippos and Myro.

b) (scil. Tomb)of Epikrita.

Italian translation

a) (scil. Tomba) di Kallippos e Myrò.

b) (scil. Tomba)di Epikrita.

Commentary

Cassels' unpublished reading was not complete and lacked information about the layout of both sections. J.M. Reynolds' tentative translation communicated to the Thorns is therefore dubitative.

D'Addazio suggested to read section B before section A, which would give both father's and mother's names. This seems impossible in terms of nomenclature, although it is quite possible that the deceased person mentioned at line 2 is a child of the pair mentioned at line 1.

The woman's name Epikrita is already attested on a much later mosaic at Cyrene and corresponds to the masculine Epikritos, rare, but attested elsewhere.

The form Μυρός, dialectal genitive of the woman's name Μυρώι, now supported by IGCyr138800², corroborates the formerly isolated genitive λεχός at IGCyr016700², l. 109.

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Fig. 1. Left part of igcyr123400/A Epitaphs

Fig. 2. Right part of igcyr123400/A Epitaphs

Fig. 3. Section B of igcyr123400 Epitaphs

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