III 223. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Artemidoros, 2nd half of IV century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.44.0, W.43.0, Th.15.5.

Additional description

Upper part of a stele bearing a cornice. The front is planed. Below the cornice - two-line inscription is cut following ruled lines and traced in red paint. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector of Chersonesos, fortifcation walls, Curtain wall 20, masonry. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1969, excavations of I.A. Antonova. 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 24/36847. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front, below the cornice. 

Lettering

Nu with short right vertical, mu with slanting outer hastae, 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

2nd half of IV century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik1978, 66, № 1 (= SEG28, 364); Perlman2011, 444, № 56. 

Edition

Ἀρτεμίδωρος
Ξανθία

Diplomatic

ΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΩΡΟΣ
ΞΑΝΘΙΑ

EpiDoc (XML)

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Commentaries

Posamentir2011, 64, № 56+56a. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Artemidoros, (son of) Xanthias.

 

Images

 

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