III 359. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Bassianos, II century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.20.0, W.25.0, Th.12.0.

Additional description

Lower part of funerary monument, in secondary use, cut from am large architectural detail. The back is roughly picked. Remains of a relief at the top. Three-line inscription below the relief. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Chersonesian necropolis south of Tower XVII (Zenon's Tower), western slope of Devichy (Maiden) Hill. 

Find circumstances

Random find in 1961. 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 16/36504. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with straight crossbar, cursive epsilon, sigma; serifs, word divisions, ligatures. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.5

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

II century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik1965, 97; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 183 (cf. Bull.ép. 1968, 376). 

Edition

Βασσιανός Ἀθ-
ηναίου ζήσας
ἔτη ΙϚ´, χἓρε, (παῖ?).

Diplomatic

ΒΑΣΣΙΑΝΟΣΑΘ
ΗΝΑΙΟΥΖΗΣΑΣ
ΕΤΗΙϚΧΕΡΕ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/>Βασσιανός 
         Ἀθ
      <lb n="2" break="no"/>ηναίου ζήσας 
      <lb n="3"/>ἔτη <num value="16">ΙϚ</num>, χἓρε, <expan><ex cert="low">παῖ</ex></expan>.
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Античная скульптура Херсонеса1976, № 318. 

 
Apparatus criticus

3: in.: ΤΗ in ligatura med.: с обеих сторон Ι точки-разделители χε͂ρε = χαῖρε f in.: монограмма, в которой читаются, вероятно, буквы Π и Α. Возможно, сокращения звательного падежа παῖ (обращение к умершему) или παροδεῖτα (обращение к путнику).

Translation

Bassianos, (son of) Athenaios, having lived 16 years, greeting you, [son?].

 

Commentary

Personal name Βασσιανός is Latin in origin, but is attested in Greek-speaking areas in the Roman period.

 

Images

 

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