III 119. Chersonesos. Dedication to Parthenos, 2nd half of IV - early III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Capital. 

Material

Sandstone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 5.0, W. 13.0, Th. 8.0.

Additional description

Upper parrt of a small Doric capital. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Northeast sector of the citadel of Chersonesos, to the north of the Repository of Antiquities. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1896, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (НА НЗХТ, д. 5, л. 2, № 123; д. 25, л. 2, № 123). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 3597. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Nu with slightly shorter right vertical, large omicron, four-bar sigma with splayed bars, slight flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.5

Text

Category

Dedicatory inscription. 

Date

2nd half of IV - early III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Latyshev 1899, 8, № 5; IOSPE IV 84; IOSPE I2 407. 

Edition

[---] Πόσιος
[ἀνέθηκε? Π]αρθένωι

Diplomatic

[---] ΠΟΣΙΟΣ
[........]ΑΡΘΕΝΩΙ

EpiDoc (XML)

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      	     Πόσιος 
      	<lb n="2"/><supplied reason="lost" cert="low">ἀνέθηκε</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">Π</supplied>αρθένωι
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   </div>
Commentaries

Pichikyan 1984, 198; Solomonik 1990, № 41. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

[---], (son of) Posios, [dedicated?] to Parthenos.

 

Images

 

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