III 292. Chersonesos.Epitaph of a daughter of Theogenes, 1st half of III century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.38.0, W.31.5, Th.16.0.

Additional description

Broken on all sides. The back is treated summarily. The inscription is cut at the top of the front, below it - traces of relief border. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector of Chersonesos, masonry of ancient proteichisma, opposite the gates of Curtain Wall 16 of fortification walls. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1970. Excavations of I.A. Antonova. 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 59/36504. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Wide alpha, nu with slightly shorter right vertical, omicron smaller than other letters; slight flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.3

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

1st half of III century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik1978, 66, № 2. 

Edition

[---]Α Θευγένειο[ς]
[---].ΙΟΥ γυνά.

Diplomatic

[---]ΑΘΕΥΓΕΝΕΙΟ[.]
[---]·ΙΟΥΓΥΝΑ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      	<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="F"><orig>α</orig></seg>
         Θευγένειο<supplied reason="lost">ς</supplied>
      	<lb n="2"/><seg part="F"><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/><orig>ίου</orig></seg> γυνά.
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

[---]a, (daughter of) Theogenes, wife of [---].

 

Images

 

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