III 295. Chersonesos.Epitaph of unknown, 1st half of III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.83.0, W.34.0, Th.15.0.

Additional description

Upper part of a stele with cornice, which has two apertures (2,5 x 4 cm) for a crowning element (an anthemium?). The back is treated summarily. The front and sides bear relief rosettes. Below the rosettes, on the front, a relief of strigil and aryballos hung on a string from a nail. Below the cornice, two-line inscription is cut following ruled lines and traced in red paint. The cornice, left half of the inscription and the relief are damaged. 

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, 43/36847. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front, below the cornice. 

Lettering

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

Letterheights (cm)

2.0

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

1st half of III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik1969, 72, №36; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 170; Perlman2011, 448, № 67. 

Edition

. [---]ΙΟΣ
[---]υ̣θενεος.

Diplomatic

·[---]ΙΟΣ
[---].ΘΕΝΕΟΣ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      	<lb n="1"/><gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
         <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="F"><orig>ιος</orig></seg>
      	<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="F"><unclear>υ</unclear>θενεος</seg>.
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Posamentir2011, 75, № 67. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

[---], (son of) [---]thenes.

 

Images

 

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