Epitaph
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: End of fourth or beginning of third century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], 174 (no image); [...] 101000.

Cf. [...], catalogue B.107.

Καλλὼι Φωκίωνος

Καλλώι[^a1]

[^a1: Καλλώι | Καλλών | Θαλλὼ]

Kallô fille de Phôkiôn.

Kallo daughter of Phokion.

Kallò figlia di Phokion.

Nothing is known about the provenance of this base. However the circular dowel holes do not correspond to a satue base erected for private honours, but may be found in some funerary bases which supported half statues of the funerary goddess (so for instance IGCyr084900). As to the date of the find, the inventory number is a plausible clue for a discovery before World War II. However, Pugliese Carratelli does not mention any trace of it from Oliverio's papers.

At the beginning of line 1 the lower oblique bar of a kappa is clear; at the end of the line, there is only the very short lower part of a vertical stroke, so that either a nu or an iota may be read, giving viz. a masculine name Κάλλων or a feminine Καλλώι; the latter is already attested at Cyrene, the former hitherto not attested but quite plausible. On behalf of the space available, inferred from the position of the final sigma of line 2, we eventually prefer to restore an iota, although this might be discussed.