Epitaph
created: Transcription from editor (CDL).
source date: Second half of the fourth century BC (Rosamilia)
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], p. 111, n. 84 and fig. 40a and b, whence [...], 9.196; [...] 024000. Cf. [...], p. 204 (date of the base); [...], p. 138; [...], catalogue B.12; [...], p. 35, footnote 117.

Παρμένων Νικία Κρής

Parmenon, fils de Nikias, crétois.

Parmenon, son of Nikias, Cretan.

Parmenon, figlio di Nikias, cretese.

The whole text was cut once, erased and cut again, with a small shift from one version to the other, namely the layout of the three names on the two lines. Only the end of the second line was not really erased, although Σ is written lower than the line. This was probably a beginner's test and may have never stood in a tomb. However its bad condition shows that it was re-used for some purpose.

The Thorns duly underline the oddness of limestone as a material for a funerary base; however, they stick to the idea of a relation with a tomb in the vicinity of the findspot.

[...] suggests that Parmenon wos one of Thibro's mercenaries.