III 222. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Aristo, 2nd half of IV century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.70.0, W.40.5, Th.12.0.

Additional description

Pedimental stele with three acroteria (the side ones are broken off). The back is summarily treated. The top and bottom (with a dowel) are preserved. Below the cornice - cut three-line inscription traced in red paint. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

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

Find circumstances

Found in 1960. Excavations of S.F. Strzheletsky (НА НЗХТ, д. 30). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 79/36847 (+ 135/36847). 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front, below the cornice. 

Lettering

Nu with a short right vertical, omicron slightly smaller than the rest of the letters, four-bar sigma with splayed bars, ypsilon with widely splayed diagonals; absence of decorative elements at the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.3

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

2nd half of IV century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik1969, 61, № 5; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 139; Perlman2011, 439, № 43. 

Edition

Ἀρίστω θυγάτηρ
Ἁγνοκρίτου, γὺνα
Ἡροφάντου

Diplomatic

ΑΡΙΣΤΩΘΥΓΑΤΗΡ
ΑΓΝΟΚΡΙΤΟΥΓΥΝΑ
ΗΡΟΦΑΝΤΟΥ

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Commentaries

Posamentir2011, 52, № 43+43a. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Aristo, daughter of Agnokritos, wife of Herophantos.

 

Images

  

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