III 256. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Herodotos, III century B.C.E.
Monument
Type
Stele.
Material
Limestone.
Dimensions (cm)
H.81.0, W.33.0, Th.14.5.
Additional description
Upper part of a stele adorned by a cornice with antefixes (partly lost). Broken in two pieces. The back is treated summarily. The front is decorated with rosettes. Between the cornice and rosettes, a two-line inscription is painted in black.
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, excavations of S.F. Strzheletsky (НА НЗХТ, д. 30).
Modern location
Sevastopol.
Institution and inventory
National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 13/36847.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front, between the cornice and rosettes.
Lettering
Omicron sligthly smaller than other letters; alpha, lambda, sigma have slightly curved letterstrokes; flaring of the ends of letterstrokes.
Letterheights (cm)
3.0
Text
Category
Epitaph.
Date
III century B.C.E.
Dating criteria
Palaeography.
Editions
Solomonik1969, 65, № 19; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 153; Perlman2011, 433, № 21.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/><unclear>Ἡ</unclear>ρόδοτος
<lb n="2"/>Ἀπολλᾶ
</ab>
</div>
Commentaries
Danilyenko1966, 172; Posamentir2011, 32, № 21.
Apparatus criticus
1: [Ἡ]ρόδοτοςSolomonik; ἩρόδοτοςPerlman
Translation
Herodotos, (son of) Apollas.
© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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