III 230. Chersonesos. Epitaph of Damatria, III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 10.0, W. 15.0.

Additional description

Fully preserved. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

Found no later than 1916. Circumstances unknown. 

Modern location

Odessa, Ukraine. 

Institution and inventory

Odessa Archaeological Museum, no inventory number. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. The monument is considered lost. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Wide gamma and tau, nu with short right vertical, omicron smaller than other letters, sigma with almost horizontal top and bottom bars, some letters have lightly curving strokes and slight flaring of the ends of strokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.4

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

IOSPE I2 510 (рисунок). 

Edition

Δαματρία
Θεοφάνειος,
Ἡρακλείου
γυνά

Diplomatic

ΔΑΜΑΤΡΙΑ
ΘΕΟΦΑΝΕΙΟΣ
ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΟΥ
ΓΥΝΑ

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Apparatus criticus

Translation

Damatria, (daughter of) Pheophanes, wife of Herakleios.

 

Images

 

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