III 317. Chersonesos.Epitaph of a man, II century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.6.0, W.7.0, Th.3.0.

Additional description

Right side of a small panel. Remains of three-line inscription, sloppily cut. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector of Chersonesos, southwest of Tower XVII ("Zeno's Tower") of the fortification walls, area of ceramic workshops covered up by a necropolis of the I-II century B.C.E. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1965, excavations of V.V. Borisova (СА 1958, № 4, 144). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 150/36442. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Nu with even verticals, sigma with splayed bars; flaring and serifs at the ends of hastae. 

Letterheights (cm)

0.8

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

II century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

НЭПХ I (Solomonik 1964) 42. 

Edition

[---]ιος
[---]λανίο<υ>
[χαῖρ]ε

2: orig.

Diplomatic

[---]ΙΟΣ
[---]ΛΑΝΙΟ
[....]Ε

2: orig.

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="F">ιος</seg> 
    <lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="F">λανίο<supplied reason="omitted">υ</supplied></seg>
    <lb n="3"/><supplied reason="lost">χαῖρ</supplied>ε
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Not attempted.

 

Images

 

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