V 302. Pantikapaion. Epitaph of Felix, IVth century C.E.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 45.0, W. 30.0, Th. 9.0.

Additional description

Widens at the top. Condition is unknown. 

Place of Origin

Pantikapaion. 

Find place

Kerch. 

Find context

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

Find circumstances

Late 1896, chance find. 

Modern location

Unknown. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Lapidary, deeply incised letters. Alpha with broken crossbar, rectangular sigma, elongated phi. 

Letterheights (cm)

4.0–5.0.

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

IVth century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Archaeological context. 

Editions

L1. Latyshev 1904, 88, № 103; 1.1. Diatroptov, Yemets 1995, № 38. 

Edition

+Φῆλιξ
Ἀριστο-
βούλου.

Diplomatic

+ΦΗΛΙΞ
ΑΡΙΣΤΟ
ΒΟΥΛΟΥ

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Translation

Felix, son of Aristoboulos.

 

Commentary

The monument was acquired from widow Tulman together with V 290. Due to a lack of either a photograph or a drawing, our date is based on the archaeological context of the find (Early Byzantine cemetery near Glinishche), as well as on the epigraphic script used for the reproduction of the text.

1. On the name Felix, see commentary to V 294.

The name Aristoboulos is attested once in Bosporus (CIRB 304, turn of the eras), but not even once in Christian epigraphy (although this is the name of one of the Seventy Apostles, see Delehaye 1902, 1057). We can therefore suggest, with some caution, that Felix's father was not a Christian.

 

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