III 137. Chersonesos.Building inscription (?), II century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.13.7, W.12.7, Th.2.9.

Additional description

Partly preserved bottom of a panel, with profiled border. The front and back are polished. The inscription is cut following ruled lines. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Central sector of the citadel (monastery vegetablel garden, bottom layer of Trench I). 

Find circumstances

Found in 1908, excavations of R.Ch. Loeper (НА НЗХТ, д. 101, л. 53, № 5035; д. 67, 17/12/1908). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 35112. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Quite wide, deeply cut letters; serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.0

Text

Category

Building inscription (?). 

Date

II century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Loeper1912, 67, № 15 (= IOSPE I2 637); НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 132. 

Edition

[---]
[---]..[---]
[---]Ε̣ΛΕΥΤ[---]
[--- κ]α̣τεσ[κεύασεν ---]

Diplomatic

[---]
[---]··[---]
[---].ΛΕΥΤ[---]
[---.].ΤΕΣ[.......---]

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      		<lb n="0"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
      		<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><gap reason="illegible" quantity="2" unit="character"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig><unclear>Ε</unclear>ΛΕΥΤ</orig><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="3"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> 
            <supplied reason="lost">κ</supplied><unclear>α</unclear>τεσ<supplied reason="lost">κεύασεν</supplied> 
            <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

1: vestigia om. edd.
2: [ἐ]τελεύτ[ησε] vel sim. ed.pr.
2-3: [Τ]ελεύτ[ης? τοῦ δεῖ/νος]Solomonik
3: suppl.Solomonik

Translation

[- - -] bui[lt - - -]

 

Images

 

(cc)© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
You may download this inscription in EpiDoc XML. (This file should validate to theEpiDoc schema.)