III 111. Chersonesos.Dedication of Delios, late III - early II century B.C.Е.
Monument
Type
Panel.
Material
Sandstone.
Dimensions (cm)
H.20.0, W.35.0, Th.13.0.
Additional description
Fully preserved. Traces of pain on the front. The text is centered.
Place of Origin
Chersonesos.
Find place
Sevastopol (Chersonesos).
Find context
Necropolis by the fortification wall, southern area, in the soil heap.
Find circumstances
Found in 1892, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (ОАК за 1892 г., 1894, 26).
Modern location
Sevastopol.
Institution and inventory
National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 3620.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Alpha with broken crossbar, dotted theta, sigma with horizontal top and bottom bars; slightly curved hastae of some letters, slight flaring of the ends of hastae.
Letterheights (cm)
2.0
Text
Category
Dedicatory inscription.
Date
Late III - early II century B.C.Е.
Dating criteria
Palaeography.
Editions
Latyshev1895, 9, № 3 (= Latyshev1895c, 514, № 3); IOSPE IV 85; IOSPE I2 411.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/>Δήλιος
Ἀπολλᾶ
<lb n="2"/>Παρθένωι
<lb n="3"/>καθ’ ἐνύπνιον
</ab>
</div>
Commentaries
Solomonik1990, 53, № 44.
Apparatus criticus
Translation
Delios, (son of) Apollas, (dedicated) to Parthenos, in accordance with a dream.
© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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