III 585. Kerkinitis.Epitaph of Ambatia, daughter of Herodotus, middle - 2nd half of IV century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.177.0, W.39.0, Th.14.0.

Additional description

Stele with a cornice and acroteria. Broken in half. Two-line inscription below the cornice. Below the inscription: polychrome painting of hanging taeniae and an alabastron. 

Place of Origin

Kerkinitis. 

Find place

Yevpatoria (Kerkinitis). 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

Random find in 1903 during earth works. 

Modern location

Moscow, Russia. 

Institution and inventory

State Historical Museum., 43602. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with straight crossbar, mu with slanted outer hastae and short inner hastae, omicron smaller than other letters, sigma with splayed bars; no curved hastae, no flaring of the ends of hastae. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.5

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

Middle - 2nd half of IV century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography, orthography. 

Editions

Latyshev1904, 18, № 13; IOSPE I2 339. 

Edition

Ἀμβατίας τᾶς
Ἡροδότο

Diplomatic

ΑΜΒΑΤΙΑΣΤΑΣ
ΗΡΟΔΟΤΟ

EpiDoc (XML)

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      		<lb n="1"/>Ἀμβατίας τᾶς
      		<lb n="2"/>Ἡροδότο
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Commentaries

Kieseritzky, Watzinger1909 14, № 91; Shcheglov1978, 44; Solomonik1984 7, № 1; Kutaysov1990, 12, 154, 158; Kutaysov2004; Kutaysov2013, 165. 

 
Apparatus criticus

2: Ἡροδότο = Ἡροδότου; Ἡροδότο(υ) edd.

Translation

(Funerary monument of) Ambatia, (daughter of) Herodotos.

 

Images

 

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