III 135. Chersonesos. Building inscription, II century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 15.0, W. 21.0, Th. 7.5.

Additional description

Broken off on all sides. The front is polished, the back is roughly picked. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector of Chersonesos, harbour area, excavations of Enclosure 43 near Curtain Wall 16 of the fortification walls. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1963, excavations of I.A. Antonova. 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 64/36588. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Large neat letters, alpha with broken crossbar, epsilon with detached middle crossbar, rectangular sigma, ypsilon with decorative crossbar; serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

4.2

Text

Category

Building inscription. 

Date

II century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik 1971a, 122 (= НЭПХ I (Solomonik 1964) 128). 

Edition

[---]
[---]ς̣ ἐκ τῶ̣[ν ἰδίων]
[κατ]εσκεύα[σεν]
vac.

Diplomatic

[---]
[---].ΕΚΤ.[......]
[...]ΕΣΚΕΥΑ[...]
     vacat

EpiDoc (XML)

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Apparatus criticus

0: [ὁ δεῖνα τοῦ δεῖνος] ed.pr.
2: vel [ἐπ]εσκεύα[σεν] ed.pr.

Translation

- - - [b]uil[t] from his [personal funds].

 

Images

 

(cc) © 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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