III 363. Chersonesos. Epitaph of Themistos and Basilike, last quarter of II century C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall of a sarcophagus. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 100.0, W. 240.0, Th. 16.0.

Additional description

Four joining fragments. The bottom and sides are cut off, the top with moulded cornice is partly damaged. The front is planed, the back is roughly picked. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

North sector of Chersonesos, in the excavations of a VI-century basilica; secondary use as floor panel in the middle nave. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1935, excavations of G.D. Belov (НА НЗХТ, д. 332, л. 153, № 1831; д. 332, л. 21). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 1/35678. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with broken crossbar, rectangular or round theta with detached crossbar, round omicron, omega in the shape of upside down mu; absence of ligatures. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.0

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

Last quarter of II century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography, prosopography. 

Editions

Shangin 1938, 80, № 10, I; Belov 1940, 271, № 5. 

Edition

Θέμιστος Στράτωνος
ζῆσας καλῶς vac. 1 litt. ἔτη ο´.
Βασιλίκη θυγάτηρ
Ἰουλιανοῦ, γυνὴ δὲ
5Θεμίστου, vac. 1 litt. ζήσασα
vac. ἔτη ν´ χαῖρετε.

Diplomatic

ΘΕΜΙΣΤΟΣ ΣΤΡΑΤΩΝΟΣ
ΖΗΣΑΣΚΑΛΩΣ  ΕΤΗΟ
ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗΘΥΓΑΤΗΡ
ΙΟΥΛΙΑΝΟΥΓΥΝΗΔΕ
5ΘΕΜΙΣΤΟΥ  ΖΗΣΑΣΑ
      ΕΤΗΝΧΑΙΡΕΤΕ

EpiDoc (XML)

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      	<lb n="1"/>Θέμιστος 
      	     Στράτωνος 
      	<lb n="2"/>ζῆσας καλῶς <space quantity="1" unit="character"/> ἔτη <num value="70">ο</num>. 
      	<lb n="3"/>Βασιλίκη θυγάτηρ
      	<lb n="4"/>Ἰουλιανοῦ, γυνὴ δὲ 
      	<lb n="5"/>Θεμίστου, 
         <space quantity="1" unit="character"/> ζήσασα
      	<lb n="6"/><space extent="unknown" unit="character"/> ἔτη <num value="50">ν</num> χαῖρετε.
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   </div>
Commentaries

Belov 1938, 38; Античная скульптура Херсонеса 1976, № 469; Solomonik 1990, 100, № 103. 

 
Apparatus criticus

2: по обеим сторонам Ο точки-разделители, om. edd.
6: по обеим сторонам N точки-разделители, om. edd.
2,.5,.6: знаки v., vac., om. edd.

Translation

Themistos, (son of) Straton, having lived well 70 years. Basilike, daughter of Iulianus, wife of Themistos, having lived 50 years. Greeting.

 

Commentary

Themistos, son of Straton, is probably identical to the homonymous individual mentioned as the first archon in the Chersonesian decree of 174 C.E. {(№ AntYa)}.

 

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