V 284. Pantikapaion. Epitaph of Trophimos, IVth century C.E.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Coarse-grained limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 50.0, W. 38.0, Th. 10.0.

Additional description

Isosceles upside down trapezoid stele; on the front - relief Latin cross with slightly flaring arms. Condition unknown. 

Place of Origin

Pantikapaion. 

Find place

Kerch. 

Find context

Glinishche, Bratskaya Street (modern Frunze Str.), house 19, garden of I.G. Chernyavsky. 

Find circumstances

Early October 1896, chance find. 

Modern location

Unknown. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Above, below, and in corners between the arms of the cross. 

Lettering

Lapidary. Alpha with broken crossbar; lunate epsilon, sigma and phi; rectangular theta and omicron, elongated phi. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.6–6.0.

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

IVth century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

L1. Latyshev 1896, 132–133, № 91b; 2. Shkorpil 1898a, 205–207, № 16; 2.1. Diatroptov, Yemets 1995, № 35. 

Edition

Ἐνθάδε
κατά-
κειται
Τρό-
5φιμος.

Diplomatic

ΕΝΘΑΔΕ
ΚΑΤΑ
ΚΕΙΤΑΙ
ΤΡΟ
5ΦΙΜΟΣ

EpiDoc (XML)

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      <lb n="1"/>Ἐνθάδε
      <lb n="2"/>κατά<lb n="3" break="no"/>κειται
      <lb n="4"/>Τρό<lb n="5" break="no"/>φιμος.
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Translation

Here lies Trophimos.

 

Commentary

The inscription was found not far from V 290 and V 302 and resembled them in script, according to Shkorpil. The monument was acquired for Melek-Chesmen Tumulus Museum.

1–3. On the formula, see Introduction IV.3.F.d.

4–5. The name Trophimos is widely attested not only in Christian Bosporus (V 285, V 289, V 301, V 331), where it had not been known before, but also in Cherson (cf. commentary to V 49).

 

Images

(cc) © 2015 Andrey Vinogradov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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