Epitaph of Theupropos
created: Transcription from previous editors and photograph (CDL).
source date: Perhaps second half of first or first half of second century AD
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[...] 5298, from [...], pl. LXXXVI and p. 404 (Letronne) and [...] and [...], pp. 325-326, whence [...] 5298; [...], n. 419; [...], p. 199; [...], p. 201, n. 300, pl. LXXVI.36, whence [...], 9.557; [...], n. 361; [...] 010.

[...] ἔτους [...] Φαωφι ε.

Θεύπροπος ἐνθάδε κεῖται, ὃς ἐν πρώτοισιν ἄριστος
ὀκτωκαιδεκέτης ἔπλετο πάντα σοφός.

ἔτους[^a1] Φαῶφι[^a2] Θεύπροπος[^a3] κεῖται[^a4] ὃς ἐν πρώτοισιν[^a5] ἔπλετο πάντα σοφός[^a6]

[^a1: ἔτους | [...]]

[^a2: Φαῶφι | Ἀθὺρ | Φαῶφι]

[^a3: Θεύπροπος | θευπεθρ[...] | Θεύπροπος | θευπρόπος | Θεύπροπος]

[^a4: κεῖται | κε[...][...] | κεῖμαι | κεῖται]

[^a5: ὃς ἐν πρώτοισιν | ϲθνεντοιϲιν | ὁ ἐν θνητοῖσιν | ἐὼν ἐν τοῖσιν]

[^a6: ἔπλετο πάντα σοφός | ϲτιαετονταϲοοφοϲ | πᾶσι πόθημα σοφοῖς | πᾶσιν ὁδῖτα σοφός]

A. [...]L'an [...], le cinq Phaôphi.

B. Ci gît Theupropos, qui parfait par excellence atteignit l'âge de dix-huit ans dans une sagesse universelle.

A. [...]In year [...], the fifth of Phaophi.

B. Here rests Theupropos, who excellent amongst the first reached the age of eighteen years being wise in all matters.

A. [...]Nell'anno [...], il cinque di Phaophi.

B. Qui giace Theupropos, che eccellente tra i primi raggiunse l'età di diciotto anni, saggio in tutto.

The date cut in smaller letters should not be linked to the verse above. It is the result of a former ordinary funerary inscription, which was erased when the surface was smoothened for the new inscription, as observed by Prof. Khaled El Haddar (personal communication, 2018).

For the personal name, Pacho's copy, although inaccurate, records some letters that were completely lost already in 1913 (De Cou's copy, whence Robinson). Of them we can keep the pi and guess that theta is misread for omicron. Welcker's different arguments are more far-fetched, although he was certainly right in restoring the full name Θεύπροπος, for we now know of a Cyrenaean bearing that name honored at Delos and also of two women from Cyrenaica named Θευπρόπα (see [...], p. 222).

Metrical analysis: one elegiac couplet. The final syllable of κεῖται is shortened before vowel, even in the caesura.