III 265. Chersonesos. Epitaph of Straton, late IV - early III century B.C.Е.
Monument
Type
Stele.
Material
Limestone.
Dimensions (cm)
H. 130.0, W. 41.5, Th. 18.0.
Additional description
Upper part of a stele adorned with a profiled cornice. Consists of two fragments. Traces of plaster. Two-line inscription below the cornice. The lines are aligned on the left, letters are traced in red paint.
Place of Origin
Chersonesos.
Find place
Sevastopol (Chersonesos).
Find context
Southeast sector of Chersonesos, fortification walls, Tower XVII ("Zeno's Tower"), masonry.
Find circumstances
Found in 1961, excavations of S.F. Strzheletsky (НА НЗХТ, д. 30).
Modern location
Sevastopol.
Institution and inventory
National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 36/36847.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front, below the cornice.
Lettering
Four-bar sigma with splayed bars, omega small than other letters, slight flaring of the ends of hastae.
Letterheights (cm)
2.9
Text
Category
Epitaph.
Date
Late IV - early III century B.C.Е.
Dating criteria
Palaeography.
Editions
Solomonik 1969, 58, № 2; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 136; Perlman 2011, 441, No. 50.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/>Στράτων
<lb n="2"/>Ἁγνία.
</ab>
</div> Commentaries
Posamentir 2011, 58, No. 50; Perlman 2011, 390 f.
Apparatus criticus
Translation
Straton, (son of) Agnias.
Commentary
Originally, the lines were aligned along the left margin and letters traced in red paint. Subsequently the surface was plastered and the patronymic was carved again in order to center the lines. After that the letters were traced in black paint. Due to this recutting, when the plaster had fallen off in line 1, traces of both red and black paint became visible, and in line 2 - the earlier carving of the word Ἁγνία.
Straton, (son of) Agnias, was apparently the brother of Apemantos, (son of) Agnias (III 264), which is supported not only by the sameness of the patronymic, but all by the similaroty between the stelae and their place of find, in adjacent courses of masonry of Tower XVII. (НЭПХ II, с. 127; Perlman 2011, 390 f.). Στράτων is a common Greek hypocorism. See also commentary to III 263.
Images
© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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