III 192. Chersonesos.Metrical epitaph of Leschanoridas, late IV - early III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.115.0, W.38.0, Th.15.0.

Additional description

Stele adorned with a moulded cornice, without antefixes, in six fragments. The bottom is broken off. Two-line inscription cut following ruled lines.  

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector of Chersonesos, Curtain Wall 20 of fortification walls, masonry. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1969, excavations of I.A. Antonova. 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 149/36847. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Nu with short right vertical, omicron and omega smaller than other letters; flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.0

Text

Category

Metrical epitaph. 

Date

Late IV - early III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik, Antonova1974a, 94 (= SEG 53, 768); Hillert1985, 418 (= SEG 36, 697); Samama2003, 199, No 101; Perlman2011, 443, No 53. 

Edition

[Τ]ῶιδε τάφωι κοσμεῖ Λεσχανορίδαν ὁ τεκνώσας̣
Εὔκλης ἰατρ̣ὸς πατρίδ[ο]ς̣ ἐκ Τενέδου
.

Diplomatic

[.]ΩΙΔΕΤΑΦΩΙΚΟΣΜΕΙΛΕΣΧΑΝΟΡΙΔΑΝΟΤΕΚΝΩΣΑ.
ΕΥΚΛΗΣΙΑΤ.ΟΣΠΑΤΡΙΔ[.].ΕΚΤΕΝΕΔΟΥ

EpiDoc (XML)

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      <lg met="elegiac">
      <l met="hexameter"><supplied reason="lost">Τ</supplied>ῶιδε τάφωι κοσμεῖ 
         Λεσχανορίδαν 
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         πατρίδ<supplied reason="lost">ο</supplied><unclear>ς</unclear> ἐκ Τενέδου</l>
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Edition in Verse


[Τ]ῶιδε τάφωι κοσμεῖ Λεσχανορίδαν ὁ τεκνώσας̣ |
   Εὔκλης ἰατρ̣ὸς πατρίδ[ο]ς̣ ἐκ Τενέδου
.
Commentaries

Solomonik1990, 80, № 84; Hillert1990, 85 слл; Vinogradov1997, 47; Zubar2005, 397 сл; , 57 слл; Dana2011, 192; Posamentir2011, 61, № 53; 141. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

With this grave, Eukles, a doctor, from Tenedos, his fatherland, adorns Leschanoridas, whom he begat.

 

Images

  

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