Epitaph
created: Editor's transcription from photograph (CDL).
source date: Plausibly fourth century BC
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Bibliography

[...], number 5 (in collaboration with Fadel Abdelaziz Alhase).

Θέωρος Ἐρατωνύμω

Théôros fils d'Eratônymos.

Theoros son of Eratonymos.

Theoros figlio di Eratonymos.

Commentary

Theoros is the form known in several regions, corresponding to Θέαρος in the Cyrenaican dialect. It transposes the word θεαρός, θεωρός 'sacred envoy', sent to sanctuaries for consulting an oracle or attending games. The name and the word are both already attested in inscriptions from Cyrenaica in the dialectal form.

Eratonymos, new for Cyrenaica, belongs to a group of personal names including the word ὄνομα, 'name'. It corresponds to an adjective ἐρατώνυμος 'with lovely name'.