III 329. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Psyche, I century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.31.0, W.36.0, Th.17.0.

Additional description

Upper part of a stele, adorned with cornice and antefixes. Below the cornice, a three-line inscription is cut without ruled lines. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector of the citadel of Chersonesos, near the fortification wall of the Quarantine Bay ("area between the boathouse and the fortification wall"). 

Find circumstances

Found in 1907, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 3650. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with broken crossbar and intersecting diagonals, dotted theta, nu with even verticals, large omicron, sigma with parallel top and bottom bars; ends of letterstrokes are not enhanced. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.8 - 2.8.

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

I century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Latyshev1908, 22, 11; IOSPE I2 523. 

Edition

Ψυχὴ
Βίθυος γυνή,
χαῖρε.

Diplomatic

ΨΥΧΗ
ΒΙΘΥΟΣΓΥΝΗ
ΧΑΙΡΕ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/>Ψυχὴ
    <lb n="2"/>Βίθυος γυνή,
      <lb n="3"/>χαῖρε.
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Античная скульптура Херсонеса1976 № 193; Posamentir2011, 115, № C41. 

 
Apparatus criticus

В нижнем левом углу сохранилась следы буквы Ν, вырезанной другой рукой.

Translation

Psyche, wife of Bithys, greeting.

 

Images

 

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