III 241. Chersonesos. Epitaph of Dionysios, 2nd half of III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 8.5, W. 10.7, Th. 2.7.

Additional description

Almost fully preserved, with only the top right corner broken off. The front is dented. At the time of discovery, it was set into a funerary stele, subsequently lost. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Necropolis by the Quarantine Bay, soil heap by Grave 46. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1911, excavations of R.Ch. Loeper (НА НЗХТ, д. 104, л. 37, № 2867). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 22229. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Nu with short right vertical, omicron smaller than other letters, four-bar sigma with splayed bars, slight flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.6

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

2nd half of III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

НЭПХ I (Solomonik 1964) 33. 

Edition

Διονύσιος
Καλλι[ά]δ̣α̣

Diplomatic

ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΣ
ΚΑΛΛΙ[.]..

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Apparatus criticus

Translation

Dionysios, (son of) Kalliadas.

 

Images

 

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