III 405. Chersonesos. Epitaph, III century C.E.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 53.0, W. 27.0, Th. 29.0.

Additional description

Stele with relief set into a rectangular base. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector of Chersonesos, near Quarantine Bay, in Tomb 1095. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1901, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (НА НЗХТ, д.30, л.5, № 218; ср. ОАК за 1901 г., 48; Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich 1902, 104). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 3628. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front of the base. H. 50.0, W. 38.0, Th. 8.0

Lettering

The text is not cut by a professional. Uneven letters. Alpha sometines has an open top, cursive sigma; word divisions, absence of serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.5

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

III century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Latyshev 1904, 21, № 15; IOSPE I2 461. 

Edition

ΚΑ.. vac. Ι..ΑΡΟ
...Α
ἐτῶν • λε´,
...λιος
5❦ ὁ υἱός,
χαῖρε
vac.

Diplomatic

ΚΑ··      Ι··ΑΡΟ
···Α
ΕΤΩΝ•ΛΕ
···ΛΙΟΣ
5❦ΟΥΙΟΣ
ΧΑΙΡΕ
      

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      		<lb n="1"/><orig>ΚΑ</orig><gap reason="illegible" quantity="2" unit="character"/> <space extent="unknown" unit="character"/> 
            <orig>Ι</orig><gap reason="illegible" quantity="2" unit="character"/><orig>Α<supplied reason="undefined" evidence="previouseditor">ΡΟ</supplied></orig>
      		<lb n="2"/><gap reason="illegible" quantity="3" unit="character"/><orig>Α</orig>
      		<lb n="3"/>ἐτῶν <supplied reason="undefined" evidence="previouseditor"><g ref="#stop"/> <num value="35">λε</num></supplied>,
      		<lb n="4"/><gap reason="illegible" quantity="3" unit="character"/><seg part="F">λι<supplied reason="undefined" evidence="previouseditor">ος</supplied></seg>
      		<lb n="5"/><g ref="#leaf"/> ὁ υἱ<supplied reason="undefined" evidence="previouseditor">ός</supplied>,
      		<lb n="6"/>χαῖρε
      		<lb n="7"/><space extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Kieseritzky, Watzinger 1909 134, № 737; Ivanova 1941, 117; Античная скульптура Херсонеса 1976 109, № 342. 

 
Apparatus criticus

1-2: Κα̣ιι Ἱλλαρο/σ̣λυ̣α Kieseritzky
4: Μίλιος edd.; не исключает Λα̣ίλιος
5: in.: folium

Translation

- - - 35 years - - - son [- - -], greeting.

 

Images

  

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