III 147. Chersonesos.Building inscription of unknown, 2nd half of II - 1st half of III century C.E.

Monument

Type

Column. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

Unknown.

Additional description

Broken off on all sides. Reused in the construction of a basilica. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Northeast sector of the citadel of Chersonesos, Uvarov Basilica (№ 23). 

Find circumstances

Found in 1853, excavations of A.S. Uvarov. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russia. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, no inventory number. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. I could not locate the monument in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Unknown. 

Letterheights (cm)

Unknown.

Text

Category

Building inscription. 

Date

2nd half of II - 1st half of III century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Archaeological context. 

Editions

Stefani1866, 236, № 8; IOSPE I 210; IOSPE I2 447. 

Edition

ἀ[γαθῇ τύχῃ]
Ρ[---]
[---]

Diplomatic

Α[........]
Ρ[---]
[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

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Commentaries

Uvarov1855, 159 сл; Mansvetov1872, 78 слл.; Pichikyan1976a, 91, 103; Pichikyan1984, 249. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Suppl.

Translation

G[ood fortune - - -].

 

Images

 

(cc)© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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