III 349. Chersonesos.Epitaph, I-II century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.6.5, W.9.5, Th.2.5.

Additional description

Broken off on all sides. The front is roughly worked, chipped and dented. A two-line inscription is cut on the front, the lines of text divided by a deep horizontal line. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

South sector of Chersonesos, necropolis outside the southern city wall. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1892, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (НА НЗХТ, д. 21, л. 5, № 82; д. 112, л. 202, № 82). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 34996. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with straight crossbar, fnu with even verticals, our-bar sigma with parallel top and bottom bars; serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.5

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

I-II century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

НЭПХ I (Solomonik 1964) 87. 

Edition

[---]
[---]ρ̣ις [---]
[--- γ]υνά̣[---]
[---]

Diplomatic

[---]
[---].ΙΣ[---]
[---.]ΥΝ.[---]
[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      	<lb n="0"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
      	<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="F"><unclear>ρ</unclear>ις</seg> <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      	<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> <w part="I"><supplied reason="lost">γ</supplied>υν<unclear>ά</unclear></w><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      	<lb n="2a"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

1: [Σωτη?]ρίςSolomonik

Translation

Not attempted.

 

Images

 

(cc)© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
You may download this inscription in EpiDoc XML. (This file should validate to theEpiDoc schema.)