III 264. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Apemantos, late IV - early III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.85.0, W.40.0, Th.17.0.

Additional description

Stele adorned with a moulded cornice. Broken off on the bottom. The front and sides are plastered. Below the cornice: two-line inscription is cut and 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, 36/36847. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front, below the cornice. 

Lettering

Mu with almost vertical outer hastae, omicron slightly smaller than other letters, pi with very short right vertical, four-bar sigma with splayed bars; slight flaring of the ends of hastae. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.6-3.

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

Late IV - early III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik1969, 57, № 1; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 135; Perlman2011, 442, No. 51. 

Edition

Ἀπήμαντος
Ἁγνία.

Diplomatic

ΑΠΗΜΑΝΤΟΣ
ΑΓΝΙΑ

EpiDoc (XML)

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      		<lb n="1"/>Ἀπήμαντος
      		<lb n="2"/>Ἁγνία.
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Commentaries

Posamentir2006, 47; Posamentir2011, 59, No. 51; Perlman2011, 390 f. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Apemantos, (son of) Agnias.

 

Commentary

The investigation of the stele with the use of indirect and UV light (Posamentir 2011, 59) enabled the discovery of a painted image of a strigil suspended on a string and, possibly, an aryballos, as well as taeniae (almost unique for a male funerary monument, cf. III 263).

Apemantos, son of Agnias, was probably the brother of Straton, son of Agnias (III 265), which is supported not only by the same patronymic, but also by the findspot: both were found in adjacent courses of masonry in Tower XVII (НЭПХ II, с. 127; Perlman 2011, 390 f.). The name Ἁγνίας is an hypocorism widely attested in the Greek world (cf. also two-stem Ἁγνόκριτος in III 222). Ἀπήμαντος is another common Greek name, attested as a patronymic on the stele of Theophantos (III 263), whose upper part was found in the masonry of Tower XVII near the stele of Apemantos (Perlman 2011, 390). On possible familial relations between these individuals, see commentary to III 263.

 

Images

 

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