V 290. Pantikapaion. Epitaph of Euphrasia, IVth century C.E.

Monument

Type

Cross. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 27.0, W. 28.0, Th. 11.0.

Dimensions (cm)

H. 24.0, W. 25.0, Th. 11.0.

Additional description

Latin cross with flaring arms. Broken in three parts, the middle is missing. 

Place of Origin

Pantikapaion. 

Find place

Kerch. 

Find context

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

Find circumstances

Late 1896, chance find. 

Modern location

Odessa, Ukraine. 

Institution and inventory

Odessa Archaeological Museum, 50371. 

Autopsy

May 1999. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Entire surface except the top arm. 

Lettering

Lapidary. Alpha with broken and slanting crossbar and pointy apex, lunate and rectangular epsilon, kappa with extended vertical. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.5–6.0.

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

IVth century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Fr. 1. L1. Latyshev 1904, 89, № 105; 1.1. Diatroptov, Yemets 1995, 16. Fr. 2. L1. Latyshev 1904, 89–90, № 106; 1.1. Diatroptov, Yemets 1995, 85–86, № 16. 

Edition

Ἐνθάδε
κατάκειται
ἡ̣ δ̣-
[ού-]
5λ̣η̣
τοῦ
Θ(εο)ῦ Ε-
ὐφρα[σία].

Diplomatic

ΕΝΘΑΔΕ
ΚΑΤΑΚΕΙΤΑΙ
..
[..-]
5..
ΤΟΥ
ΘΥΕ
ΥΦΡΑ[...]

EpiDoc (XML)

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Apparatus criticus

3-5: ὁ δοῦλος resp. ἡ δούλη] Latyshev 1904
7-8: Εὐφρά[σιος resp. σία Latyshev 1904

Translation

Here lies a servant of God, Euphrasia.

 

Commentary

Both surviving parts were acquired from Mrs. Tulman, but not recognised as parts of one monument and published separately. Diatropov and Yemets also see the two fragments as one inscriptions, although mistakenly identifying the monument as panel, on the basis of the publication of Fragment 2. Latyshev failed to notice traces of line 3 on the top fragment, which allows to determine the gender of the deceased, and thus to reconstruct the ending of the name.

1–7. On the formula, see Introduction IV.3.F.d.

7–8. The name Euphrasia is not known in Bosporus, but is attested in Christain inscriptions (e.g., ICUR 7205). In addition, four Christian martyresses of this name are known (see Delehaye 1902, 1087). On tombstones in the shape of a cross, see commentary to V 61.

 

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