Epitaph of Archo
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Late fourth or early third century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], pp. 25-29, n. 2 (with photograph), whence [...], 47.2173; [...] 004. Cf. [...], n. 682 (when not yet published), whence [...], 39.1723; [...], catalogue B.92.

Mνῆμα ἀρετῆς τόδε ἔθηκε Φίλων Ἀρχοῖ συνομεύνωι
[...]αι [...] [...]ωι.

αι[^a1]

[^a1: αι | [...]ι]

Philôn a fait faire ce monument pour son épouse Arkhô comme souvenir de sa valeur [...].

Philon laid down this monument for his wife Archo as a record of her virtue [...].

Philon pose questa monumento per sua moglie Archò in memoria della sua virtù [...].

The poetic word συνόμευνος is a super-compound based upon two compounds in literary texts: σύνευνος and ὅμευνος.

Metrical analysis: the poem was made of one hexameter at text-lines 1-2, followed probably by a pentameter (or another hexameter) now lost at text-lines 3-4.