III 586. Chora of Chersonesos.Dedication to Hekate, III century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.16.0, W.55.0, Th.29.0.

Place of Origin

Chora of Chersonesos. 

Find place

Belyaus. 

Find context

Southwest sector of the citadel, in a Scythian dwelling of I century B.C.E. where it was reused in a door frame. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1989, excavations of O.D. Dashevskaya. 

Modern location

Yevpatoria. 

Institution and inventory

Yevpatoria Regional Studies Museum, Бел.-89/108. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. I was not able to find the monument in the repository of Yevpatoria Regional Studies Museum. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with a straight crossbar, dotted theta, nu with a raised right vertical, four-bar sigma with splayed bars, wide omega. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.0

Text

Category

Dedicatory inscription. 

Date

III century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik1992, 46 (= SEG 42, 700). 

Edition

Θεόδω[ρος]
Ἐπιφάνειος
Ἑκάτα[ι]

Diplomatic

ΘΕΟΔΩ[...]
ΕΠΙΦΑΝΕΙΟΣ
ΕΚΑΤΑ[.]

EpiDoc (XML)

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      		<lb n="1"/>Θεόδω<supplied reason="lost">ρος</supplied>
      		<lb n="2"/>Ἐπιφάνειος
      		<lb n="3"/>Ἑκάτα<supplied reason="lost">ι</supplied>
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Suppl. ed. pr.

Translation

Theodoros, (son of) Epiphanes (dedicated) to Hecate.

 

Images

 

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