III 322. Chersonesos.Epitaph of a woman, II century B.C.Е.
Monument
Type
Stele.
Material
Marble.
Dimensions (cm)
H.6.5, W.10.0.
Additional description
Broken off on the left. Remains of three lines of text on the front.
Place of Origin
Chersonesos.
Find place
Sevastopol (Chersonesos).
Find context
Southeast sector of Chersonesos, necropolis "between the Quarantine Bay and the military road to Sevastopol."
Find circumstances
Found in 1896, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich.
Institution and inventory
Unknown.
Autopsy
Non vidi. Current whereabouts of the monument are unknown.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Nu with short right vertical, omicron little smaller than other letters, four-bar sigma with parallel top and bottom bars, oval omega with bottom horizontal strokes raised above the writing line; serifs and flaring of the ends of letterstrokes.
Letterheights (cm)
1.5
Text
Category
Epitaph.
Date
II century B.C.Е.
Dating criteria
Palaeography.
Editions
IOSPE 17, № 19; IOSPE IV 139; IOSPE I2 522 .
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> Ἡρώιδα
<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="F"><unclear>σ</unclear>ικλεῖος</seg>
<lb n="3"/><supplied reason="lost">γ</supplied>υνά.
</ab>
</div>
Apparatus criticus
Translation
[---] Heroida, wife of [---]sikleios.
© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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