III 111. Chersonesos. Dedication of Delios, late III - early II century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Sandstone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 20.0, W. 35.0, Th. 13.0.

Additional description

Fully preserved. Traces of pain on the front. The text is centered. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Necropolis by the fortification wall, southern area, in the soil heap. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1892, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (ОАК за 1892 г., 1894, 26). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 3620. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with broken crossbar, dotted theta, sigma with horizontal top and bottom bars; slightly curved hastae of some letters, slight flaring of the ends of hastae. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.0

Text

Category

Dedicatory inscription. 

Date

Late III - early II century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Latyshev 1895, 9, № 3 (= Latyshev 1895c, 514, № 3); IOSPE IV 85; IOSPE I2 411. 

Edition

Δήλιος Ἀπολλᾶ
Παρθένωι
καθ’ ἐνύπνιον

Diplomatic

ΔΗΛΙΟΣΑΠΟΛΛΑ
ΠΑΡΘΕΝΩΙ
ΚΑΘΕΝΥΠΝΙΟΝ

EpiDoc (XML)

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   <ab>
      	<lb n="1"/>Δήλιος 
           Ἀπολλᾶ 
      	<lb n="2"/>Παρθένωι 
      	 <lb n="3"/>καθ’ ἐνύπνιον
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Solomonik 1990, 53, № 44. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Delios, (son of) Apollas, (dedicated) to Parthenos, in accordance with a dream.

 

Images

 

(cc) © 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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