III 227. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Bakos, 2nd half of IV century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.205.0, W.37.0, Th.19.0.

Additional description

Stele adorned with a moulded cornice, in five fragments. On the top, a dowel hole for the attachment of an anthemium. The inscription is cut in thin strokes, following ruled lines, traced in black paint. Below the inscription is a poorly preserved relief image of a sword, strigil, and aryballos, with polychrome colouring. The back is well worked. 

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 and 1961, excavations of S.F. Strzheletsky (НА НЗХТ, д. 30). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 3/36847. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Kappa with short diagonals, four-bar sigma with splayed bars, absence of decorative elements at the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.1

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

2nd half of IV century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik1969, 60, № 4; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973)138 (= Bull.ép.1974, 380); Perlman2011, 441, № 46. 

Edition

Βάκος
Ζευξιδάμου

Diplomatic

ΒΑΚΟΣ
ΖΕΥΞΙΔΑΜΟΥ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      		<lb n="1"/>Βάκος
      		<lb n="2"/>Ζευξιδάμου
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Posamentir2011,70, № 62+62a. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Bakos, (son of) Zeuxidamos.

 

Images

 

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