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. Latyshev1904, 88, № 103; 1.1. Diatroptov, Yemets1995, № 38.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/><g ref="#stauros"/>Φῆλιξ
<lb n="2"/>Ἀριστο<lb n="3" break="no"/>βούλου.
</ab>
</div>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.
© 2015 Andrey Vinogradov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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