III 282. Chersonesos. Epitaph of Apollonia, 1st half of III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 73.0, W. 30.0, Th. 17.0.

Additional description

Upper part of pedimental stele with acroteria (clipped off). The back is well worked. All four sides bear relief rosettes. On the front, between the rosettes, a four-line inscription is painted in red. Below the rosettes - painting of taenia tied in a knot and with hanging ends. 

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, 16/36847. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Nu with raised right vertical, pi with short right vertical and slightly extended horizontal, omicron smaller than other letters. 

Letterheights (cm)

2–2.5 (стк. 4: 1.8).

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

1st half of III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik 1969, 65, № 17; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 151; Perlman 2011, 449, № 71. 

Edition

Ἀπολλωνία
Ἡροδότου,
Διονυσίου
γυνά

Diplomatic

ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΑ
ΗΡΟΔΟΤΟΥ
ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ
ΓΥΝΑ

EpiDoc (XML)

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   <ab>
      		<lb n="1"/>Ἀπολλωνία
      		<lb n="2"/>Ἡροδότου, 
      		<lb n="3"/>Διονυσίου
      		<lb n="4"/>γυνά
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Danilyenko 1966, 172; Posamentir 2011, 79, № 71. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Apollonia, (daughter of) Herodotos, wife of Dionysios.

 

Images

 

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