III 424. Chersonesos. Incertum (epitaph ?), III century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 4.1, W. 9.0, Th. 12.5.

Additional description

The front and bottom are polished. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Central sector of the citadel, during the paving of the square around St. Vladimir cathedral. 

Find circumstances

Random find in 1899, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (НА НЗХТ, д. 28, л. 2, № 162). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 34954. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with straight crossbar, dotted theta, nu with short right vertical, light flaring of the ends of hastae. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.0

Text

Category

Unknown. 

Date

III century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

IOSPE IV 79, p. 51; IOSPE I2 401, p. 354; Makarov 2014, 31. 

Edition

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Commentaries

Shangin 1938, 74, № 1. 

 
Apparatus criticus

В конце стк. следы линий одной или двух букв.

Translation

 

Images

 

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