III 407. Chersonesos. Epitaph, not before III century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 6.8, W. 9.0, Th. 2.3.

Additional description

Broken off on all sides. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

Unknown. Loeper entered it in the list of inedita of the Chersonesos Museum no later than 1914 (НА НЗХТ, д. 112, л. 51). 

Modern location

Sevastopol, Crimea. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 34988. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Elongated letters, cursive epsilon and mu, slight flaring of the ends of hastae. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.5

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

Not before III century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

НЭПХ I (Solomonik 1964) I 50. 

Edition

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Diplomatic

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Apparatus criticus

1: [ἐνθάδε] κ̣εῖμε [- - -] Solomonik

Translation

- - - I lie - - -

 

Images

 

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