III 240. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Polykasta, late IV - 1st half of III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.162.0, W.35.5, Th.16.0.

Additional description

Pedimental stele with acroteria. In three fragments. Fully preserved, but for the bottom left corner. The front and sides are decorated with relief rosettes. On the front, below the rosettes - painted image of {taeniae} tied in a knot, with ends hanging, and of an alabstron hung on a cord. Between the cornice and rosettes is a two-line inscription painted in black, following ruled lines. 

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

Saint Petersburg, Russia. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Х.1968.1. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front, between the cornice and rosettes. 

Lettering

Epsilon with a short middle bar, pi with rightward extended horizontal, flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.0

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

Late IV - 1st half of III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik1969, 63, № 11; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 145 (= Bull.ép., 1974, 380); Perlman2011, 432, № 7. 

Edition

Πολυκάστα
Ἱπποκράτειος,
Δελφοῦ γυνά

Diplomatic

ΠΟΛΥΚΑΣΤΑ
ΙΠΠΟΚΡΑΤΕΙΟΣ
ΔΕΛΦΟΥΓΥΝΑ

EpiDoc (XML)

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      	<lb n="2"/>Ἱπποκράτειος, 
      	<lb n="3"/>Δελφοῦ γυνά
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Apparatus criticus

Translation

Polykasta, (daughter of) Hippokrates, wife of Delphos.

 

Images

 

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