III 217. Chersonesos. Epitaph of Akis, III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 7.0, W. 16.5, Th. 3.5.

Additional description

Fully preserved. Three-line inscription cut following ruled lines. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector of Chersonesos, necropolis "between the Quarantine Bay and the military road to Sevastopol." 

Find circumstances

Found in 1896, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (НА НЗХТ, д. 5, л. 16, № 504; д. 25, л. 4, № 131). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 3685. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Epsilon with a short middle bar, nu with slightly raised right hasta, omicron smaller than other letters, four-bar sigma with splayed bars, some letters have lightly curving strokes, flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.0

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Latyshev 1899, 16, № 16; IOSPE IV, 130; IOSPE I2 504. 

Edition

Ἀκὶς Γέροντος,
Ὀνασικλέος γυνά.

Diplomatic

ΑΚΙΣ ΓΕΡΟΝΤΟΣ
ΟΝΑΣΙΚΛΕΟΣΓΥΝΑ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>

      		<lb n="1"/>Ἀκὶς 
      		    Γέροντος,
      		<lb n="2"/>Ὀνασικλέος γυνά. 

   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Kieseritzky, Watzinger 1909 № 15d. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Akis, (daughter of) Geron, wife of Onasikles.

 

Commentary

Personal names Ἀκίς (also attested in Bosporus, LGPN IV) and Ὀνασικλῆς occur in Chersonesos only in this inscription. The name Γέρων is know from other Chersonesian inscriptions of the Hellenistic period.

 

Images

 

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