lapicide

plural lapicides

1. A stonecutter.

   One or two cracks in the rock have been avoided by the lapicide.

   1959, British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Anatolian studies

   2 more examples

   Letters omitted by the lapicide or evident mistakes of the lapicide corrected by the editor.

   2003, Adam Łajtar et al., Catalogue of the Greek inscriptions in the Sudan National Museum at Khartoum

   […] made by Wosnick several decades ago, that the name M. Silanus Murena is the result of a lapicide's error and that this part of the inscription was […]

   1996, John Percival Postgate, Edward Vernon Arnold, Frederick William Hall, Classical quarterly