Epitaph
created: Transcription from previous mentions (CDL).
source date: Fourth or perhaps early third century BC (Reynolds)
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Not really published before [...] 122400. Cf. [...], pl. III.b; [...], p. 79.

Ἀπονίκας

Aponikas.

Aponikas.

Aponikas.

This inscription was not mentioned by Cassels, who nevertheless gave a photograph on which it is clearly readable. The photograph was aimed at showing a typical enclosure of sarcophagi. Unfortunately, the caption to the plate refers to the South Necropolis. We now know its exact place thanks to the Thorns who reprint Cassels' photograph and comment: «This isolated clutch of sarcophagi was found in 1998 to be buried in modern refuse and Cassels' claim that it was in the Southern Necropolis is incorrect». They add some comments from J.M. Reynolds about reading and dating.

J.M. Reynolds commented that she could not decide whether the third letter was an omega or an omicron. However the latter gives a well-formed name and should be preferred. She also wondered whether this was the nominative of a man's name or the genitive of a woman's name. However, only the masculine is morphologically acceptable and we have in fact another occurrence of this rare name at IGCyr000500, which might also have been written at Thera.