III 362. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Theagenes and Ulpia Makaria, II century C.E.
Monument
Type
Stele.
Material
Marble.
Dimensions (cm)
H.101.0, W.53.5, Th.20.0.
Additional description
Rectangular stele with a relief pediment (a rosette in the centre) and acroteria. In a rectangular inset area: a relief of standing male and female figures, dressed in chiton and cloak, with the woman standing on a pedestal. The right hand of each figure is pressed to the chest, the left is down. In his left hand, the man holds a scroll, the woman - the hem of her cloak. Below the relief is three-line inscription cut following ruled lines.
Place of Origin
Chersonesos.
Find place
Sevastopol (Chersonesos).
Find context
In one of rock-cut tombs outside the city wall.
Find circumstances
Found in 1793; subsequently kept in the church of St. John the Baptist (see Clarke 1810, 495; Мурзакевич 1837, 645; Dubois de Montpéreux 1843, 169; KW 61, № 355). In 1846, the monument was sent to St. Petersburg.
Modern location
Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Institution and inventory
The State Hermitage Museum, Х.1793.1.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Slightly elongated letterstrokes; alpha with broken (in line 3 - with straight) crossbar, eta and theta with detached crossbars, kis in the shape of dzeta (without the vertical), pi with extended horizontal; ligatures, word divisions.
Letterheights (cm)
2.5
Text
Category
Epitaph.
Date
II century C.E.
Dating criteria
Palaeography, onomastics.
Editions
Waxel 1803, 2, № 3; Clarke 1810, 495; Koehler 1826, 782, note 812; CIG II 2100; Köhne 1848, 108 (= 1848a, 117); IOSPE I 215 (= IOSPE I2 453).
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/>Θεαγένης Χρηστίωνος
<g ref="#stop"/> καὶ
<lb n="2"/>ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ <g ref="#stop"/> Οὐλπία Μα
<lb n="3" break="no"/>καρία ἐτῶν <num value="65">ξε</num> κὲ <num value="52">νβ</num>· χαῖρε.
</ab>
</div>
Commentaries
Sumarokov 1800, 121; Pallas 1801, 74; Murzakevich 1837, 645; Dubois de Montpéreux 1843, 169; Graefe 1848, 373; Stephani 1850, 79; Mansvetov 1872, 49; Kieseritzky, Watzinger 1909 61, № 355; Античная скульптура Херсонеса 1976 99, № 313; Solomonik 1990, 83, № 85.
Apparatus criticus
3: ΚΕ in ligatura, κέ = καί ξε’Kirchhof,Kieseritzky; ⸢ξ⸣ε’IOSPE
Translation
Theagenes, (son of) Chrestion, and his wife Oulpia Makaria, 65 and 52 years old. Greeting.
Commentary
The monument most likely dates to the middle of the II century C.E.
© 2017 Igor
Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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