III 257. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Herophilos, III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.85.0, W.33.0, Th.13.0.

Additional description

Upper part of a stele with cornice and antefixes (missing). Broken in two pieces. The front is decorated with relief rosettes. Below the rosettes - traces of an image of a sword and sword belt. Between the cornice and rosettes - two-line inscription in black paint (poorly preserved). 

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, 64/36847. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Omicron small than other letters, pi's horizontal does not extend beyond the short right vertical; slightly curved hastae of alpha, lambda, sigma; flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.0

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik1969, 65, № 20; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 154; Perlman2011, 434, № 22. 

Edition

Ἡρόφ̣ιλος
Ἀπολλᾶ

Diplomatic

ΗΡΟ.ΙΛΟΣ
ΑΠΟΛΛΑ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      	<lb n="1"/>Ἡρό<unclear>φ</unclear>ιλος
      	<lb n="2"/>Ἀπολλᾶ
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Posamentir2011, 33, № 22. 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: Ἡρό[φ]ιλοςSolomonik; Ἡρόφ̣ιλοςPerlman

Translation

Herophilos, (son of) Apollas.

 

Images

 

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