Epitaph
created: Transcription from photograph (CDL).
source date: Perhaps mid-fourth to mid-third century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Ἐπαγὼι Θεοδώρω

Ἐπαγὼι[^a1]

[^a1: Ἐπαγὼι | [...]ΠΑΠΩΙ]

Epagô fille de Theodôros.

Epago, daughter of Theodoros.

Epagò, figlia di Theodoros.

Cinalli's reading is not satisfactory because she was looking for a masculine name at the dative, which would be inconsistent with a funerary focus. In fact, the photograph allows to guess an epsilon at far left and shows as fourth letter gamma instead of the proposed pi, for there is no hasta at right. We have thus here the earliest occurrence of the woman's name Ἐπαγώι already known to us in the Roman imperial period. It is a short form of a compound name for which we know of three possibilities: Ἐπάγαθος, a well known name, which is attested in Cyrenaica in the imperial period; a hypothetical Ἐπαγομένος related to the birthday, if it one of the intercalated days (ἐπαγόμεναι) of the Greek-Egyptian calendar; or Ἐπάγατος, attested at Thera in the seventh century BC (IG XII 3, 764) and in Euboea on a coin about 170 BC. It seems impossible to choose between all three possibilities.