III 425. Chersonesos.Incertum, III century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Pedestal. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.22.0, W.60.0, Th.71.0.

Additional description

Fully preserved. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Near the fortification walls of Chersonesos. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1898. 

Modern location

Unknown. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. I was not able to find the monument in the repository of the National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with a straight crossbar, four-bar sigma with splayed bars, flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.0

Text

Category

Unknown. 

Date

III century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

IOSPE IV 89 (= IOSPE I2 416). 

Edition

[---]ασιτίμου [---]...

Diplomatic

[---]ΑΣΙΤΙΜΟΥ[---]···

EpiDoc (XML)

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Apparatus criticus

[ὁ δ. Νικ]ασιτίμου [ἀνέ]θ[ηκεν ? - - -]IOSPE

Translation

 

Commentary

At the end of the line, on the photograph of the estampage, one can see traces of a round letter and before it, the tops of two verticals. According to the IOSPE transcription, after ypsilon there is a right diagonal.

 

Images

 

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