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. Latyshev1896, 132–133, № 91b; 2. Shkorpil1898a, 205–207, № 16; 2.1. Diatroptov, Yemets1995, № 35.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/>Ἐνθάδε
<lb n="2"/>κατά<lb n="3" break="no"/>κειται
<lb n="4"/>Τρό<lb n="5" break="no"/>φιμος.
</ab>
</div>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
© 2015 Andrey Vinogradov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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