III 220. Chersonesos. Epitaph of Apollonia, III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Sandstone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 45.0, W. 33.0, Th. 14.0.

Additional description

Upper part of pedimental stele with acroteria (the top left corner is broken off). Relief rosettes on the front. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Necropolis by the southern fortification wall. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1892, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (ОАК за 1892 г., 25; НА НЗХТ, д. 21, л. 4). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 3641. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. The monument is presently considered lost. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front, above the rosettes. 

Lettering

Alpha with slightly curved crossbar, omicron slightly smaller than other letters, four-bar sigma with splayed bars, flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.5

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Latyshev 1895 , 11, № 7 (= IOSPE IV 131); IOSPE I2 505. 

Edition

[Ἀπο]λλωνία [..]σίχου,
[Ν]εοπόλιος γυνά

Diplomatic

[...]ΛΛΩΝΙΑ[··]ΣΙΧΟΥ
[.]ΕΟΠΟΛΙΟΣΓΥΝΑ

EpiDoc (XML)

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     <lb n="1"/><supplied reason="lost">Ἀπο</supplied>λλωνία
      <gap reason="lost" quantity="2" unit="character"/><seg part="F">σίχου</seg>,
      <lb n="2"/><supplied reason="lost">Ν</supplied>εοπόλιος γυνά
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Kieseritzky, Watzinger 1909 № 1. 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: [Νεά]ρχου Latyshev, IOSPE, Kieseritzky; [Σω]σίχου IOSPE I2

Translation

Apollonia, (daughter of) [---]sichos, wife of Neapolis.

 

Images

 

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