Epitaph of a Cretan
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Probably third century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Not published before [...] 133000, whence [...] 67.1496.

Ζωΐλος Κρὴς Ἐλευθερναῖος

Zôilos, crétois d'Eleutherna.

Zoilos, a Cretan from Eleutherna.

Zoilos, cretese da Eleutherna.

The absence of a father's name is puzzling. However, as the ethnic of Eleutherna is mentioned, there is no reason to suppose that the dead was no citizen. It not by chance that a Cretan man died in the Port of Cyrene, where he probably came for business.

The stele was found during building works West of the ancient city in a tomb that was destroyed on the occasion, like so many others which lie under the modern village, now a town.