III 210. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Gorgippa and Amphias, ca. mid-IV century B.C.Е.
Monument
Type
Stele.
Material
Limestone.
Dimensions (cm)
H.83.0, W.38.5, Th.17.0.
Additional description
Upper par of a stele with monolithic anthemium, in five fragments. A three-line inscription is cut below the cornice, centered, 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 (НА НЗХТ, д. 30).
Modern location
Sevastopol.
Institution and inventory
National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 39/36847.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front, below the cornice, centered.
Lettering
Mu with slanting outer hastae, large omicron, four-bar sigma with splayed bars; absence of flaring of the ends of hastae.
Letterheights (cm)
4.1 (стк. 1-2); 3.2 (стк. 3).
Text
Category
Epitaph.
Date
Ca. mid-IV century B.C.Е.
Dating criteria
Palaeography.
Editions
Solomonik1969, 70, № 32; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 166 (= Bull.ép.1974,380); Perlman2011, 446, № 60.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/>Γοργίππα,
<lb n="2"/>Ἀμφίας
<lb n="3"/>Μάτριος
</ab> </div>Commentaries
Posamentir2011, 68, № 60.
Apparatus criticus
Translation
Gorgippa, Amphias, (children of) Matris.
Commentary
An architecturally close parallel is a contemporary epitaph from Kerkinitis (№ ipe399).
Γοργίππα - female personal name, dual-based, formed with the element γοργός (Bechtel HPN, 111), in Doric vocalisation. In the Northern Black Sea region, is not otherwise attested (see, however, a paralle masculine form Γόργιππος, LGPN IV). The theophoric name Μᾶτρις - a diminutive form of the dual-based name with the element Μητρο- is widely represented in Chersonesos (Hellenistic period, LGPN IV) and other Megarian colonies. See Robert 1959, 231; Masson 1994, 141.
Images
© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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