III 316. Chersonesos. Epitaph of a man, II century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 9.5, W. 8.0, Th. 5.0.

Additional description

Left side of a small panel. Chipped on the top and bottom; the front is well worked. Two-line inscription. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

Unknown. 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 35121. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Narrow epsilon with short middle bar; four-bar sigma with parallel top and bottom bars; serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.5

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

II century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

НЭПХ I (Solomonik 1964) 38. 

Edition

[---]ης
[---]τειος

Diplomatic

[---]ΗΣ
[---]ΤΕΙΟΣ

EpiDoc (XML)

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      	<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="F">τειος</seg>
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Apparatus criticus

Translation

Not attempted.

 

Images

 

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