V 22. Cherson. Dedication of Martyrios, late IV – Vth century C.E.
Monument
Type
Panel.
Material
Proconnesian marble.
Additional description
On the front - relief Latin cross with flaring arms. Broken in four fragments.
Place of Origin
Cherson.
Find place
Sevastopol (Chersonesos).
Find context
Church 36 ('Eastern basilica') (?).
Find circumstances
1877-1878, excavations of the Odessa Society of History and Antiquities.
Modern location
Unknown.
Institution and inventory
Unknown.
Autopsy
Non vidi.
Epigraphic field
Position
In upper corners between the arms of the cross.
Lettering
Lapidary. Letters are slightly uneven. Alpha with a loop and with slanting crossbar; pi with extended horizontal; elongated rho and phi; V-shaped and Y-shaped upsilon, sometimes leaning to the right; rounded and rectangular omega.
Text
Category
Dedication.
Date
Late IV – Vth century C.E.
Dating criteria
Palaeography.
Editions
L1. Yurgevich 1879, 8, № 4; 1.1. Yurgevich 1879a, 313; 2. Latyshev 1896, 28, № 15; 3. Vinogradov 2010, 119–122, № b2.
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<ab>
<lb n="1"/><g ref="#stauros"/> Ὑπὲρ
<lb n="2"/>εὐχῆς Μαρ<lb n="3" break="no"/>τυρίου καὶ
<lb n="4"/>πάντων τῶ<lb n="5" break="no"/>ν διαφερόν<lb n="6" break="no"/>των αὐτῷ.
</ab>
</div> Apparatus criticus
Τὴν ἐκκλίνει εὐχὴν λιπαροῦ γυνὴ Ἀντωνίου Ἰνδικτιῶνος ΙΔ, ῶνα ἔτους Yurgevich 1879
Translation
For the prayer of Martyrios and all his near and dear.
Commentary
See commentary for V 21.
6. The difference in the case of modifiers is due to the governing word διαφέρων: if it is understood to be a participle, it takes dative (see I.Iasos 638, IGLS 2028A), but if as a noun, it takes genitive.
Images
© 2015 Andrey Vinogradov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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