III 232. Chersonesos. Epitaph of Kotticha, late IV - early III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 59.0, W. 37.0, Th. 18.5.

Additional description

Pedimental stele (damaged in secondary use). Upper part is preserved. Below the cornice is a three-line inscription cut following ruled lines and traced in red paint. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector of Chersonesos, fortification walls, Tower XVII ("Zeno's Tower"), masonry. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1961, excavations of S.F. Strzheletsky (НА НЗХТ, д. 30). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 49/36847. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front, below the cornice. 

Lettering

Mu with slightly shorter right vertical, ypsilon with widely splayed diagonals; slight flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.3-3.8.

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

Late IV - early III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik 1969, 67, № 22; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 156 (= Bull.ép., 1974, 380); Perlman 2011, 435, № 36. 

Edition

Κοττίχα
Δαματρίου
γυνά

Diplomatic

ΚΟΤΤΙΧΑ
ΔΑΜΑΤΡΙΟΥ
ΓΥΝΑ

EpiDoc (XML)

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Commentaries

Posamentir 2006, 39-40; Posamentir 2011, 45, № 36. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Kotticha, wife of Damatrios.

 

Images

 

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