III 332. Chersonesos Epitaph, late II - 1st half of I century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 17.5, W. 25.5, Th. 5.0.

Additional description

Broken off on all sides. Split in two joining fragments. The front is effaced. In the middle, there is a depression, below which one line of text is visible. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

Unknown. Acquired from a private collection. 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 31284. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with straight crossbar, dotted theta, mu with parallel even verticals, serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.0

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

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

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

НЭПХ I (Solomonik 1964) 49. 

Edition

[---]. Μ ἐνθάδε [---]

Diplomatic

[---]·ΜΕΝΘΑΔΕ[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/> 
      <orig>Μ</orig> ἐνθάδε <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

1: [--- ζήσας] | [ἔτ]η̣ μʹ ἐνθάδε [κεῖται] vel [--- γῆ] μ’ ἐνθάδε [καλύπτει] (cf. Peek, GVI 486; 509). Solomonik

Translation

Not attempted.

 

Images

 

(cc) © 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
You may download this inscription in EpiDoc XML. (This file should validate to the EpiDoc schema.)