A proper name.
*me/tabos: o)/noma ku/rion.
That of a son of Sisyphus (
sigma 490) and eponymous founder of the city of Metapontion/
Metapontum (
mu 725) in the instep of Italy. See e.g.
Strabo 6.1.15,
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v. Kaulonia and (esp.) Metapontion.
Same entry, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon.
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