III 216. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Aischinas, late IV - 1st half of III century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.108.0, W.31.5, Th.15.0.

Additional description

Upper part of a stele bearing cornice with antefixes. On the front - two relief rosettes. Between the cornice and rosettes - a two-line inscription cut following ruled lines. Below the rosettes - knobbly stick painted in brown. 

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 1960, excavations of S.F. Strzheletsky (НА НЗХТ, д. 30). 

Modern location

St Petersburg, Russia 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Х.1974.1. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Omicron smaller than other letters, nu with short right vertical, four-bar sigma with splayed bars, some letters have lightly curving strokes, slight flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. Letters are somewhat sloppily cut, without the use of ruled lines. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.8

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

Late IV - 1st half of III century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik1969, 68, № 27; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 161; Perlman2011, 434, № 27. 

Edition

Αἰσχίνας
Γέροντος.

Diplomatic

ΑΙΣΧΙΝΑΣ
ΓΕΡΟΝΤΟΣ

EpiDoc (XML)

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      <lb n="2"/>Γέροντος.
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Commentaries

Posamentir2011, 38, № 27. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Aischinas, (son of) Geron.

 

Commentary

Posamentir (2011, 38) attributes the stele to the "circle of Sannion's workshop." Other attestations of the name in Chersonesos, see LGPN IV.

 

Images

 

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