V 293. Pantikapaion.Epitaph of Toudrougos, IV-Vth centuries C.E.
Monument
Type
Stele.
Material
Compact fine-grained limestone.
Dimensions (cm)
H.63.0, W.28.0, Th.11.0.
Additional description
On the front - inset prepared area (depth 2.0cm) bearing inscription. Fully preserved.
Place of Origin
Pantikapaion.
Find place
Kerch.
Find context
Glinishche, Bratskaya (modern Frunze) St., house 13, yard of F. Collangelo.
Find circumstances
8 May 1911, chance find
Modern location
Kerch, Crimea.
Institution and inventory
Historical and Archeological Museum of Kerch State Historical and Cultural Preserve, КЛ–1741.
Autopsy
May 1999, September 2004, September 2008.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the upper half.
Lettering
Lapidary; letters are filled with ochre. Alpha with broken crossbar, rectangular epsilon and sigma; diamond-shaped theta and omicron, Y-shaped upsilon. Rounded ligature: omicron-upsilon.
Letterheights (cm)
2.0–3.0.
Text
Category
Epitaph.
Date
IV-Vth centuries C.E.
Dating criteria
Palaeography.
Editions
L1. Shkorpil1912, 20–21, № 10; 1.1. Diatroptov, Yemets1995, № 32.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/><g ref="#stauros"/>Ἐνθάδε
<lb n="2"/><expan><abbr>κα</abbr><ex>τά</ex><abbr>κιται</abbr></expan>
<supplied reason="lost">ὁ</supplied>
<lb n="3"/>δοῦλος τοῦ
<lb n="4"/><roleName><expan><abbr>Θ</abbr><ex>εο</ex><abbr>ῦ</abbr></expan></roleName> Τουδρου<lb n="5" break="no"/>γος. <g ref="#stauros"/>
</ab>
</div>
Apparatus criticus
2: [ὁ]: om. al.
Translation
Here lies a servant of God, Toudrougos.
Commentary
Shkorpil mentions some illegible remains of letters under and to the left of the inscription, but in my opinion, they are random scratches.
1–4. On the formula, see Introduction IV.3.F.d. In all cases where this formula is attested in Bosporus, the words "servant of God" are preceded by an article, for which there is enough room on this stone as well. The deceased bears a non-Greek name.
© 2015 Andrey Vinogradov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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