V 102. Cherson.Inscribed panel, IV–VIth centuries C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.5.0, W.10.0, Th.4.0.

Additional description

Acroterion at the top. In secondary use (?). Broken off on the left and bottom. 

Place of Origin

Cherson. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Near Tower XVI ("Zenon's tower") 

Find circumstances

1908, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich. 

Modern location

Sevastopol, Crimea. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 17924 (III/69). 

Autopsy

May 1999, August 2001, September 2002, September 2003, September 2004, September 2005, September 2006, September 2007. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Lapidary style, lunate epsilon and sigma. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.5.

Text

Category

Unknown. 

Date

IV–VIth centuries C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Unpublished. 

Edition

[--- αὐτοκράτο?]ρες
[---]..
[---]

Diplomatic

[---.........]ΡΕΣ
[---]··
[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

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   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      <supplied reason="lost" cert="low">αὐτοκράτο</supplied>ρες 
      <lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><gap reason="illegible" quantity="2" unit="character"/>
      <lb/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
   </ab>
   </div>

Translation

[... autokrat]ors (?) ...

 

Commentary

Latyshev published this inscription twice, but without offering a reading (1909, 47, № 9; IOSPE I2, 648). The material, the script and especially the acroterion (cf. V 7) suggest that it is a fragment of a monumental inscription, but its contents can be suggested only hypothetically.

Latyshev dated this inscription to the Roman period, but the rounded shapes of epsilon and sigma point more to Early Byzantine times, before the end of the VIth century.

 

Images

(cc)© 2015 Andrey Vinogradov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
You may download this inscription in EpiDoc XML. (This file should validate to theEpiDoc schema.)