Cyrillona, also spelled Qurilona (fl. 4th century AD), was an early Syriac poet. He was the younger contemporary of Ephrem the Syrian. It is speculated that he might have been a nephew of Ephrem.[1][2] He was a contemporary of Balai of Qenneshrin.[3] Gustav Bickell has referred to him as the most important Syriac poet after Ephrem.[4]
Only five of Cyrillona's poems survive, each examined and explained by Griffin, but "On the Grain of Wheat" is of doubtful authenticity.[5] His poem On Zaccheus,[6] is about the invasion of Syria by Huns,[3] is preserved on the manuscript BL Add. 14,591 kept at the British Library.[4]