III 350. Chersonesos. Epitaph of a woman, 2nd half of I century C.E.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 80.0, W. 36.0, Th. 18.0.

Additional description

Narrow tall stele of the "Bosporan type" with a dowel for attachment to a base. Fully preserved. Relief in a rectangular inset field. The inscription below the relief is considerably effaced. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector of Chersonesos, "citadel." Secondary use as a drain cover under Tower XVI. 

Find circumstances

Found before 1928, excavations of K.E. Grinevich (НА НЗХТ, д. 273, л. 14). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 29249. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with broken crossbar, theta with detached crossbar; light serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.3

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

2nd half of I century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

НЭПХ I (Solomonik 1964) 53. 

Edition

[---] θυγά[τηρ]
[---] γ[υνὴ]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
χ[αῖρε].

Diplomatic

[---] ΘΥΓΑ[...]
[---] Γ[...]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
Χ[....]

EpiDoc (XML)

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   <ab>
      	<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> 
      	     θυγά<supplied reason="lost">τηρ</supplied> 
      	<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> 
      	     γ<supplied reason="lost">υνὴ</supplied> 
      	<lb n="3"/><gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="line"/>
      	<lb n="4"/>χ<supplied reason="lost">αῖρε</supplied>.
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Grinevich 1929, 21; Античная скульптура Херсонеса 1976, № 378. 

 
Apparatus criticus

rest. Solomonik

Translation

[---], daugther of [---], w[ife of ---], gr[eeting].

 

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.)