Epitaph

IGCyr092100

Trismegistos ID: 738445

Source Description

Support

Between second and third doors in a series of five belonging to a rock-cut tomb (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Incised deeply on the outer wall in the space between two doors forming a pilaster-like shape.

Letters

0.08; much weathered and difficult to read; epsilon with three equal bars, smaller omicron, slanting sigma.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Fourth or first half of third century B.C. (lettering)

Last recorded Location

Studied by G. Paci in 1993 in situ.

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL) and previous editor.

Bibliography

Paci, 2003 , pp. 179-180, n. 3 (ph.; dr.), whence SEG , 53.2053, 3.

Text

Ἐπα̣ί[ν]ε̣τ̣ο̣ς

Apparatus

1 (Dobias-Lalou's and Laronde's copy produced a desperate reading ΕΠΑ̣ ξ Α̣Ν̣ΤΟΣ)

French translation

Epainétos (?)

English translation

Epainetos (?)

Italian translation

Epainetos (?)

Commentary

Paci very cautiously only mentioned some possible readings of already known names, among which Ἐπαίνετος seemed to him to be the most probable.

Dobias-Lalou had also visited the place with Laronde in 1977 and is not able to offer any better reading.

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