III 321. Chersonesos.Epitaph of a woman, II century B.C.E.
Monument
Type
Stele.
Material
Marble.
Dimensions (cm)
H.7.0, W.6.3, Th.3.7.
Additional description
Broken off on the left. Remains of four lines of text.
Place of Origin
Chersonesos.
Find place
Sevastopol (Chersonesos).
Find context
North sector of the citadel, Block XVIII (cistern «Д»).
Find circumstances
Found in 1948, excavations of G.D. Belov (НА НЗХТ, д. 104, л. 39, № 3007).
Modern location
Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Institution and inventory
The State Hermitage Museum, Х.1948.56.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Alpha with broken crossbar and open top, nu with short vertical, omicron nearly the same size as other letters, pi with short right vertical and extended horizontal.
Letterheights (cm)
1.2
Text
Category
Epitaph.
Date
II century B.C.E.
Dating criteria
Palaeography.
Editions
НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 182.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig>ΑΠΟ<unclear>Λ</unclear></orig>
<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="F">ου</seg>
Α<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
<lb n="2" break="no"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>χου
<lb n="3"/><supplied reason="lost">γυ</supplied>νά
</ab>
</div>
Apparatus criticus
Translation
Not attempted.
© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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