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.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/>Διονύσιος
<lb n="2"/>Καλλι<supplied reason="lost">ά</supplied><unclear>δα</unclear>
</ab>
</div>
Apparatus criticus
Translation
Dionysios, (son of) Kalliadas.
© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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