III 248. Chersonesos. Epitaph of a couple (?), late IV - early III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Architrave. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 24.0, W. 77.0, Th. 39.0.

Additional description

Left half of an architrave. The insription is cut below the cornice, traced in red paint. 

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

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 124/36847. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front, below the cornice. 

Lettering

Mu with slanting outer hastae, nu with short right viertical, sigma with splayed bars, slight flaring of the ends of hastae. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.0

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

Late IV - early III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik 1969, 74, № 41; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 175; Perlman 2011, 453, № 3. 

Edition

1
Εὔκριτος
Μενοίτα
2
[---]Να
γυνά

Diplomatic

1
ΕΥΚΡΙΤΟΣ
ΜΕΝΟΙΤΑ
2
[---]ΝΑ
ΓΥΝΑ

EpiDoc (XML)

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<div type="textpart" subtype="inscription" n="2"> <ab> <lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="I">Να</seg> <lb n="2"/>γυνά </ab> </div>
Commentaries

Buyskikh 2008, 192 и 404, рис. 119. 

 
Apparatus criticus

1-2: Νά[να (?) Εὐκρίτου] | γυνά Solomonik

Translation

1

Eukritos, (son of) Menoitas.

2

Na[---], wife of [---].

 

Images

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