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Epitaph

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0921002
Trismegistos ID: 738445

Source description

Support: Between second and third doors in a series of five belonging to a rock-cut tomb (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Incised deeply on the outer wall in the space between two doors forming a pilaster-like shape.

Letters: 0.08; much weathered and difficult to read; epsilon with three equal bars, smaller omicron, slanting sigma.

Date: Fourth or first half of third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou and A. Laronde in 1977 at Cyrene: West Necropolis, between tombs W42 and W43 Cassels.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Studied by G. Paci in 1993 in situ, in the West Necropolis.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL) and previous editor.

Bibliography

Paci 2003, pp. 179-180, n. 3 (ph.; dr.), whence SEG, 53.2053, 3; IGCyr 092100 .

Text

Interpretive

Ἐπα̣ί[ν]ε̣τ̣ο̣ς

Diplomatic

ΕΠ.Ι[.]...Σ

Apparatus

1: Dobias-Lalou's and Laronde's copy produced a desperate reading ΕπΑ̣Ξ̣Α̣Ν̣τος

French translation

Epainétos (?)

English translation

Epainetos (?)

Italian translation

Epainetos (?)

Commentary

Paci very cautiously only mentioned some possible readings of already known names, among which Ἐπαίνετος seemed to him to be the most probable.

Dobias-Lalou had also visited the place with Laronde in 1977 and is not able to offer any better reading.

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