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.
Paci, 2003 Paci, G., 2003, Iscrizioni dalla necropoli occidentale di Cirene, in Studi in memoria di Lidiano Bacchielli, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)18, 173-182 - see in bibliography , pp. 179-180, n. 3 (ph.; dr.), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 53.2053, 3.
1 (Dobias-Lalou's and Laronde's copy produced a desperate reading ΕΠΑ̣ ξ also consonant with τ, σ Α̣Ν̣ΤΟΣ)
Epainétos (?)
Epainetos (?)
Epainetos (?)
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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