III 230. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Damatria, III century B.C.Е.
Monument
Type
Stele.
Material
Marble.
Dimensions (cm)
H.10.0, W.15.0.
Additional description
Fully preserved.
Place of Origin
Chersonesos.
Find place
Sevastopol (Chersonesos).
Find context
Unknown.
Find circumstances
Found no later than 1916. Circumstances unknown.
Modern location
Odessa, Ukraine.
Institution and inventory
Odessa Archaeological Museum, no inventory number.
Autopsy
Non vidi. The monument is considered lost.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Wide gamma and tau, nu with short right vertical, omicron smaller than other letters, sigma with almost horizontal top and bottom bars, some letters have lightly curving strokes and slight flaring of the ends of strokes.
Letterheights (cm)
1.4
Text
Category
Epitaph.
Date
III century B.C.Е.
Dating criteria
Palaeography.
Editions
IOSPE I2 510 (рисунок).
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/>Δαματρία
<lb n="2"/>Θεοφάνειος,
<lb n="3"/>Ἡρακλείου
<lb n="4"/>γυνά
</ab>
</div>
Apparatus criticus
Translation
Damatria, (daughter of) Pheophanes, wife of Herakleios.
© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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