III 152. Chersonesos. Honorific inscription, III century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Base. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 20.0, W. 33.0, Th. 77.0.

Additional description

Partly preserved top of a base. Reused in the Roman period as a funerary monument. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector of Chersonesos, excavation trench outside Curtain Wall 19 of the fortification walls. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1900, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (НА НЗХТ, д. 9, л. 17, № 178; д. 29, л. 3, № 180). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 3670. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with straight crossbar, sigma with slightly splayed bars, nu with raised right vertical. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.0

Text

Category

Honorific inscription. 

Date

III century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Latyshev 1890 IV 100; IOSPE I2 464. 

Edition

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[---] εύσαντα
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Diplomatic

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EpiDoc (XML)

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      	<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> <w part="F">εύσαντα</w>
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   </div>
Commentaries

IOSPE 464. 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: [ἱερατ]εύσαντα vel [βασιλ]εύσαντα vel sim IOSPE

Translation

Not attempted.

 

Images

 

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