III 410. Chersonesos. Epitaph of Pasion, III century B.C.Е.
Monument
Type
Stele.
Material
Limestone.
Dimensions (cm)
H. 36.0, W. 30.0, Th. 17.5.
Additional description
Upper part of a stele split in two pieces.
Place of Origin
Chersonesos.
Find place
Sevastopol (Chersonesos).
Find context
Southeast sector of Chersonesos, archaeological investigation of Curtain wall 19, level of the 3rd construction period.
Find circumstances
Found in 2008. Excavations of V.G. Samoylenko.
Modern location
Sevastopol.
Institution and inventory
National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 73/37545.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Slightly curved letterstrokes, omicron smaller than other letters (1,2cm); slight flaring of the ends of hastae.
Letterheights (cm)
2.5
Text
Category
Epitaph.
Date
III century B.C.Е.
Dating criteria
Palaeography.
Editions
Makarov, Samoylenko 2013b 69, № 4.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/>Πασίων
<lb n="2"/><space quantity="1" unit="character"/> Διοτίμου
<lb n="3"/>Ἡρακλεώτας
</ab>
</div> Apparatus criticus
Translation
Pasion, (son of) Diotimos, citizen of Heraklea.
Commentary
The earliest mention of the citizens of the Chersonesian metropolis, Herakleia Pontica, in the epigraphy of Chersonesos. Other mentions date to the Roman period (cf. Avram PPE 1865ff.), among which, there are two funerary monuments: of Herakleion, (son of) Menophon (III 418), and of Pontikos, (son of) Nemerios (III 419).
Such common personal Greek names as Πασίων and Διότιμος had not been previously attested in Heraleian prosopography (LGPN VA). At the same time, the name Πασίων is attested multiple time in Chersonesos in the III-II centuries B.C.E. (LGPN IV), while Diotimos, is mentioned in the 2nd half of the II century B.C.E. on two types of silver coins of Chersonesos (Anochin 1977, 146, № 181, 183).
Images
© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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