III 224. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Artemidora, III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.9.3, W.12.0, Th.1.9.

Additional description

Right half of a stele with remains of a four-line inscription. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Harbour area of Chersonesos, excavations of Buildings 39-40. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1967, excavations of V.N. Danilenko. 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 9/36739. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Sloppily cut letters; mu with slanting outer hastae, flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.5

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 181. 

Edition

[Ἀρ]τεμιδώρ̣[α]
[---]θ̣ενίου
[---]νος
[γυ]νά.

Diplomatic

[..]ΤΕΜΙΔΩ.[.]
[---].ΕΝΙΟΥ
[---]ΝΟΣ
[..]ΝΑ

EpiDoc (XML)

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   <ab>
     <lb n="1"/><supplied reason="lost">Ἀρ</supplied>τεμιδώ<unclear>ρ</unclear><supplied reason="lost">α</supplied> 
      <lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="F"><unclear>θ</unclear>ενίου </seg>
      <lb n="3"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="F">νος</seg>
      <lb n="4"/><supplied reason="lost">γυ</supplied>νά.
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

1,4: rest.Solomonik
2: [Пар]θενίουSolomonik

Translation

Artemidora, (daughter of) [---]phenios, wife of [---].

 

Images

 

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