III 364. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Kalleas and Hedytea, IIn century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.29.0, W.33.0, Th.10.0.

Additional description

Upper left part of a panel. Relief pediment with acroteria and rosette in the centre; relief of funerary feast in a rectangular inset field on the front. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

Found no later than 1872 when it was brought to Moscow. Circumstances of find are unknown, but was in Chersonesos until 1872. 

Modern location

Moscow, Russia. 

Institution and inventory

State Historical Museum, 78607. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. On the architrave, between the pediment and the inset field for relief. 

Lettering

Alpha with straight crossbar, omicron smaller than other letters, four-bar sigma with parallel top and bottom bars; serifs and flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.5

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

IIn century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

IOSPE I 216; Latyshev1892, 366; IV p. 281, ad № 216; IOSPE I2 454. 

Edition

Καλλέας Γαίου καὶ ἡ γ̣[υνὴ αὐτοῦ]
Ἡδυτέα Δημητρίου θυγά̣[τηρ]· [χαίρετε].

Diplomatic

ΚΑΛΛΕΑΣ ΓΑΙΟΥΚΑΙΗ.[........]
ΗΔΥΤΕΑ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥΘΥΓ.[..........]

EpiDoc (XML)

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      	<lb n="1"/>Καλλέας 
      	     Γαίου καὶ ἡ 
         <unclear>γ</unclear><supplied reason="lost">υνὴ</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">αὐτοῦ</supplied>
      	<lb n="2"/>Ἡδυτέα 
      	     Δημητρίου 
         θυγ<unclear>ά</unclear><supplied reason="lost">τηρ</supplied>· <supplied reason="lost">χαίρετε</supplied>.
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Mansvetov1872, 50, № 11; Kieseritzky, Watzinger1909, № 736; Античная скульптура Херсонеса1976, № 327. 

 
Apparatus criticus

rest.Latyshev

Translation

Kalleas, (son of) Gaius, and his wife Hedytea, daughter of Demetrios, greeting.

 

Commentary

The date is II century C.E. (more likely the first half of the century).

Watzinger 1909, № 736 (erroneous reference to ЗИРАО).

Line 1. The patronymic Γαίου has division signs on either side.

 

Images

 

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