III 336. Chersonesos. Epitaph of Gazourios, I century C.E.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 85.0, W. 60.0, Th. 12.0.

Additional description

Broken off on the top. Relief in two registers. The top register shows remains of draped figures. Below, on the right side, relief images of arms and armour: quiver with bow and arrows, greaves, shield, sword, spear shaft. Three-line insrciption below the relief. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southern area of necropolis, near the fortification wall of Chersonesos, soil heap. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1892, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (НА НЗХТ, д. 3, л. 22, № 76a; д. 21, л. 3, № 76). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 3691. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with broken crossbar, delta with projecting right diagonal, wide mu with slightly splayed outer hastae, large oval omicron, nu with even verticals, pi with even verticals and extended horizontal, sigma with parallel top and bottom bars, horseshoe omega; ends of hastae are not enhanced. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.7–2.4

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

I century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Latyshev 1895, 12, № 9 (= Latyshev 1895c, 516, № 7); IOSPE IV 105; IOSPE I2 471. 

Edition

Γαζούριος Μητροδώρου πρωταρ-
χοντεύων ἐτῶν ν´,
χαῖρε.

Diplomatic

ΓΑΖΟΥΡΙΟΣΜΗΤΡΟΔΩΡΟΥΠΡΩΤΑΡ
ΧΟΝΤΕΥΩΝΕΤΩΝΝ
ΧΑΙΡΕ

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Commentaries

Kieseritzky, Watzinger 1909 № 409; Античная скульптура Херсонеса 1976 № 316; Kadeev 1985, 68. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Gazourios, (son of) Metrodoros, first archon for 15 years, greeting.

 

Images

 

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