III 281. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Dionysios, 1st half of III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.95.0, W.35.0, Th.16.0.

Additional description

Upper part of a stele adorned with cornice and antefixes (clipped off). Broken in two pieces. On the front and sides: relief rosettes. Between the cornice and rosettes is a two-line inscription painted in black paint following ruled lines. 

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, 67/36847. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front, between the cornice and rosettes. 

Lettering

Nu with short right vertical, slightly curved letterstrokes, slight flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.5

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

1st half of III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik1969, 65, № 16; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 150 (= Bull.ép., 1974, 380); Perlman2011, 431, № 5. 

Edition

Διονύσιος
Σαννίωνος.

Diplomatic

ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΣ
ΣΑΝΝΙΩΝΟΣ

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Kolesnikova1969, 50; Posamentir2011, 18, № 5. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Dionysios, (son of) Sannion.

 

Images

 

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