III 325. Chersonesos. Epitaph of Asklapiadas, I century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 9.0, W. 19.0, Th. 5.0.

Additional description

Cut from an anthropomorphic funerary stele (?). Broken off on the bottom. The front shows traces of relief border (2cm wide). 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

South sector of Chersonesos ("by the monastery hospice"), soil heap, necropolis near the fortification wall. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1904, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (НА НЗХТ, д. 33, л. 1, № 246; д. 13, № 246). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 3606. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with broken crossbar (sometimes formed by two intersecting diagonals); four-bar sigma with parallel top and bottom bars; slight flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.5

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

I century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Latyshev 1905 107, № 5; IOSPE I2 468. 

Edition

Ἀσκλαπιάδας
Χαρμίππου

Diplomatic

ΑΣΚΛΑΠΙΑΔΑΣ
ΧΑΡΜΙΠΠΟΥ

EpiDoc (XML)

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      		<lb n="1"/>Ἀσκλαπιάδας
      		<lb n="2"/>Χαρμίππου 
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   </div>
Commentaries

Kieseritzky, Watzinger 1909 № 764c. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Asklapiadas, (son of) Charmippos.

 

Commentary

In the bottom right corner, letters ΠΑ are cut by a different hand.

 

Images

 

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