V 297. Pantikapaion.Epitaph of Euprepeios, IVth century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel (?). 

Material

Limestone. 

Additional description

The right corner is possibly missing. 

Place of Origin

Pantikapaion. 

Find place

Kerch. 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

Before 1913. 

Modern location

Unknown. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Lapidary. Rectangular epsilon, pi with extended horizontal, lunate sigma, Y-shaped upsilon.  

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

IVth century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

L1. Marti1913, 66, № 142а; 1.1. Diatroptov, Yemets1995, № 12. 

Edition

Εὐπρέ-
πις.

Diplomatic

ΕΥΠΡΕ
ΠΙΣ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/>Εὐπρέ<lb n="2" break="no"/>πις.
   </ab>
   </div>

Translation

Euprepis.

 

Commentary

The photograph reproduced here is preserved at the Photo Archive of the Institute for History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences (О.90.5). The stone is marked with inventory number 142/А.

1-2. The name Euprepeios (here Euprepis) is attested once in Bosporus (CIRB 1077, from Hermonassa) and once in Christian epigraphy (Lefebvre 1907, № 504). On the transition of inflected forms ending in -ιος to those ending in -ις, see Tokhtasiev 2007.

 

Images

 Photograph of face (from Institute for History of Material Culture)

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