III 208. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Apollonios, 2nd half of IV century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.183.5, W.39.5, Th.16.5.

Additional description

Stele bearing a cornice, in 3 fragments. The bottom part is missing. Below the cornice - two-line carved inscription traced in red paint. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector of Chersonesos, fortification walls, Tower XVII ("Zeno's Tower"), masonry. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1961. Excavations of S.F. Strzheletsky. 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 48/36847. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front, below the cornice. 

Lettering

Nu with a slightly shortened vertical, omicron smaller than the rest of the letters, ypsilon with widely splayed diagonals; slightly curved letterstrokes; absence of decorative elements at the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.1

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

2nd half of IV century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik1969, 61, № 7; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 141; Perlman2011, 439, №42. 

Edition

Ἀπολλώνιος
Πυρρίνου

Diplomatic

ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΣ
ΠΥΡΡΙΝΟΥ

EpiDoc (XML)

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      <lb n="1"/>Ἀπολλώνιος 
      <lb n="2"/>Πυρρίνου
     </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Posamentir2011, 51, № 42. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Apollonios, son of Pyrrhinos.

 

Commentary

The possibility of joining two bottom fragments was suggested by Posamentir 2011, 51, № 42.

The name Pyrrhinos is known as the name of a Chersonesian monetary magistrate of the III century BCE (LGPN IV; Anochin 1980, 142, № 119, 250-230 BCE; cf. Turovsky, Gorbatov 2013, 96, № 144, 300-275 BCE.)

 

Images

  

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