V 105. Cherson.Inscribed small panel, VI–VIIth centuries C.E.

Monument

Type

Small panel. 

Material

White fine-grained marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.7.0, W.6.0, Th.1.5.

Additional description

Three grooves on the front. Broken off on all sides. 

Place of Origin

Cherson. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Canet battery, soil heap behind the battery. 

Find circumstances

1914, excavations of R.Ch. Loeper. 

Modern location

Sevastopol, Crimea. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 34336. 

Autopsy

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

Epigraphic field

Position

Over the horizontal groove. 

Lettering

Lapidary. Rectangular sigma. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.0.

Text

Category

Unknown. 

Date

VI–VIIth centuries C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Unpublished. 

Edition

[---]Σ

Diplomatic

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EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig>Σ</orig>
   </ab>
   </div>

Translation

Not feasible.  

Commentary

Judging by the shape of the stone, this is an image-related inscription. The grooves on the front might be related to the missing image.

 

Images

 Photograph of face

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