III 194. Chersonesos.Metrical (?) epitaph of an Olbian, last quarter of II - 1st half of I century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.6.5, W.5.5, Th.4.0.

Additional description

Top of the panel with remains of 3 lines of text is preserved. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector of Chersonesos, excavation trench outside Curtain Wall 19 of the fortification walls. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1900, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (НА НЗХТ, д. 29, № 90). 

Modern location

Unknown. Formerly in Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown Formerly in Museum of Chersonesos (later renamed National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos), 4811. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. The monument is considered lost. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with curved crossbar, beta with enlarged bottom loop, four-bar sigma with parallel top and bottom bars, prominent flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.5

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

Last quarter of II - 1st half of I century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Latyshev1902, 67, № 8; IOSPE I2 546. 

Edition

[---]Ὀλβιοπ[ολίτης---]
[---]πας vac. [---]
[---ἔ]χ̣ει φθί[μενον]

[---]

Diplomatic

[---]ΟΛΒΙΟΠ[......---]
[---]ΠΑΣ      [---]
[---.].ΕΙΦΘΙ[.....]

[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      	<lb n="1"/><lg><l part="Y"><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>Ὀλβιοπ<supplied reason="lost">ολίτης</supplied><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/></l>
      	<lb n="2"/><l part="Y"><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><w part="F">πας</w> <space extent="unknown" unit="character"/> <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/></l>
      	<lb n="3"/><l part="Y"><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><supplied reason="lost">ἔ</supplied><unclear>χ</unclear>ει 
            φθί<supplied reason="lost">μενον</supplied></l></lg>
      	<lb n="3a"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
   </ab>
   </div>

Edition in Verse


[---]Ὀλβιοπ[ολίτης---] |
[---]πας vac. [---] |
[---ἔ]χ̣ει φθί[μενον]

[---]
Commentaries

Avram2013, № 2576. 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: Ὀλβιοπ[ολι - - -]; форма nom. sg. условна.IOSPE
2: не исключаю [πένθος λέλοι]πας vel sim.; vac. om. edd.
3: [- - - ἔχ]ει - edd.

Translation

- - - citizen of Olbia - - - [you left (sorrow) - - - (the grave) holds the dece[ased - - -]

 

Images

 

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