person
Timas
also: Τιμάς, Τιμάδος
A girl dead before her wedding, mourned in the epitaph AP 7.489 transmitted under Sappho's name; her agemates cut their hair at her tomb.
Reading notes
- Fragments of Uncertain Book, with the Epigrams and Dubia §ap-7-489 Timas
A girl dead on the eve of her wedding — the epitaph's whole grief is in that timing; her agemates' cut hair is the offering owed to a marriage that became a funeral. A Hellenistic epitaph under Sappho's name.