III 575. Vicinity of Chersonesos.Dedication (?), mid-II- mid-III century C.E.

Monument

Type

Small panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.5.3, W.5.4, Th.2.0.

Additional description

Partly preserved left corner of a small panel. Below an inset rectangle that would have housed a relief is an inscription cut following ruled lines. The surface is well worked. 

Place of Origin

Vicinity of Chersonesos. 

Find place

Isthmus of Saki, Northwest Crimea. 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1986 by treasure hunters. 

Modern location

Saki, Crimea. 

Institution and inventory

Saki Museum of History and Ethnography., СП-86/135. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Oval omicron; serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.2

Text

Category

Dedicatory inscription (?). 

Date

Mid-II- mid-III century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography, archaeological context. 

Editions

Lantsov2003 30, № 25. 

Edition

Φιλομ[---]
[.].[---]

Diplomatic

ΦΙΛΟΜ[---]
[·]·[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      		<lb n="1"/><seg part="I">Φιλομ</seg><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="character"/><gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

1: Φιλόμ[ουσος] ed. pr., e.g.Lantsov

Translation

Philom[- - -]

 

Images

 

(cc)© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
You may download this inscription in EpiDoc XML. (This file should validate to theEpiDoc schema.)