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. Shkorpil 1912, 20–21, № 10; 1.1. Diatroptov, Yemets 1995, № 32. 

Edition

+Ἐνθάδε
κα(τά)κιται [ὁ]
δοῦλος τοῦ
Θ(εο)ῦ Τουδρου-
5γος. +

Diplomatic

+ΕΝΘΑΔΕ
ΚΑΚΙΤΑΙ[.]
ΔΟΥΛΟΣΤΟΥ
ΘΥΤΟΥΔΡΟΥ
5ΓΟΣ+

EpiDoc (XML)

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   <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.

 

Images

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