III 211. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Goson, IV century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.65.0, W.22.0, Th.16.0.

Additional description

Stele with cornice (badly damaged). Broken on the right. A two-line inscription is cut in the lower half. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

Unknown. 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 8194. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Large omicron and omega, four-bar sigma with splayed bars, no flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.0

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

IV century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

НЭПХ I (Solomonik 1964) 28. 

Edition

Γόσω[ν Πα-]
πία.

Diplomatic

ΓΟΣΩ[. ..-]
ΠΙΑ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      		<lb n="1"/>Γόσω<supplied reason="lost">ν</supplied>
      		   <supplied reason="lost">Πα</supplied>
      		<lb n="2" break="no"/>πία.
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Античная скульптура Херсонеса1976 69, № 165. 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: Solomonik

Translation

Goson, (son of) Papias.

 

Images

 

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