III 330. Chersonesos. Epitaph (?), late II - 1st half of I century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Granite. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 11.0, W. 22.0, Th. 18.0.

Additional description

Segment of a cornice (Latyshev). 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector, next to Tower XVII ("Zeno's Tower") of the fortification walls. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1898, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (НА НЗХТ, д. 7, № 153). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, no inventory number. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. Current whereabouts of the monument are unknown. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with broken crossbar; theta with crossbar, mu wth vertical outer hastae, large omicron, four-bar sigma with parallel top and bottom bars; virtually no enhancement of the ends of hastae. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.8 - 2.8

Text

Category

Epitaph (?). 

Date

Late II - 1st half of I century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

IOSPE 20, 27; IOSPE IV 161; IOSPE I2 589. 

Edition

[---]υ̣δαμος Ἀθλι[---]

Diplomatic

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Commentaries

НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 174, approx. 135. 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: [Εὔ]δαμος vel [Εὐρύ]δαμος vel [Εὐθύ]δαμος Ἀθλί|[ωνος] vel Ἀθλί|[α] IOSPE; [Εὔ]δαμος Ἀθλί[α ἀνέθηκεν ? ] IOSPE

Translation

Not attempted.

 

Images

 

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