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, Russia. 

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). 

Edition

Θεαγένης Χρηστίωνος καὶ
ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ Οὐλπία Μα-
καρία ἐτῶν ξε´ κὲ νβ´· χαῖρε.

Diplomatic

ΘΕΑΓΕΝΗΣΧΡΗΣΤΙΩΝΟΣΚΑΙ
ΗΓΥΝΗΑΥΤΟΥΟΥΛΠΙΑΜΑ
ΚΑΡΙΑΕΤΩΝΞΕΚΕΝΒΧΑΙΡΕ

EpiDoc (XML)

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   <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.

 

Images

  

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