III 283. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Megakles, 1st half of III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.178.0, W.38.0, Th.17.0.

Additional description

Stele with cornice and antefixes (lost). Broken in two pieces. Well preserved (small damage to the profiled moulding on the left and to the dowel on the bottom). The front and sides are decorated with relief rosettes. Between the cornice and rosettes - two-line insription painted in black following ruled lines. Below the inscription - image of a sheathed sword and sword belt hung from a nail. 

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, 6/36847 + 56/36847. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front, between the cornice and rosettes. 

Lettering

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

Letterheights (cm)

2.6

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

1st half of III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik1969, 64, № 14; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 148 (= 1974, 380); SEG, 53, 767, № 3; Perlman2011, 430, № 3. 

Edition

Μεγακλῆς
Σαννίωνος.

Diplomatic

ΜΕΓΑΚΛΗΣ
ΣΑΝΝΙΩΝΟΣ

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Kolesnikova1969, 48; Posamentir2011, 16, № 3. 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: Μεγακλῆ - (ошибочно).

Translation

Megakles, (son of) Sannion.

 

Commentary

On Sannion and his family, as well as other personal names in this inscription, see commentary to № neph146.

 

Images

 

(cc)© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
You may download this inscription in EpiDoc XML. (This file should validate to theEpiDoc schema.)