III 278. Chersonesos. Epitaph of Sannion, 1st half of III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 127.0, W. 37.0, Th. 14.0.

Additional description

Stele bearing a cornice with antefixes (almost entirely lost). Broken into three pieces. The bottom is missing. The front and sides are decorated with relief polychrome rosettes. Between the cornice and rosettes is a two-line inscription painted in black following ruled line. 

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 1960-1961, excavations of S.F. Strzheletsky (НА НЗХТ, д. 30). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 5/36847. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Epsilon with a short middle bar, nu with short right vertical, flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.4

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

1st half of III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik 1969, 63, № 12; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 146 (= Bull.ép., 1974, 380); SEG, 767, № 4; Perlman 2011, 429, № 1. 

Edition

Σαννίων
Μεγακλέος.

Diplomatic

ΣΑΝΝΙΩΝ
ΜΕΓΑΚΛΕΟΣ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      		<lb n="1"/>Σαννίων 
      		<lb n="2"/>Μεγακλέος.
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Danilyenko 1969, 36; Posamentir 2011, 14, № 1. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Sannion, (son of) Megakles.

 

Images

 

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