III 489. Chersonesos ?. Incertum, II century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 15.0, W. 39.0, Th. 4.0.

Additional description

Broken off on the left. Cut on all other sides in secondary use. The front is planed. One-line inscription cut following ruled lines. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos ?. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

South sector of the citadel of Chersonesos, in the ares of thirc-century C.E. theatre (in the floor of the baptistery of the last "cruciform church with a reliquary." 

Find circumstances

Found in 1897, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (НА НЗХТ, д. 6, л. 11, № 141; д. 23). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 3607. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Slightly elongated letters, four-bar sigma with parallel top and bottom bars; serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

5.2

Text

Category

Unknown. 

Date

II century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Latyshev 1899, 24, № 35; IOSPE IV 182 (= IOSPE I2 641). 

Edition

[---]
[---]ιος Ποντ[---]
[---]

Diplomatic

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[---]ΙΟΣΠΟΝΤ[---]
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EpiDoc (XML)

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Apparatus criticus

2: Ποντ[ικου? - - -] edd.

Translation

Not attempted.

 

Images

 

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