III 249. Chersonesos. Epitaph of a couple, 1st half of III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Architrave. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 26.0, W. 66.5, Th. 37.0.

Additional description

Right half of an architrave. Dowel holes on the top. 

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, 123/36847. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Below the frieze. Letters carved and then traced in red paint. 

Lettering

Nu with short right vertical, omicron smaller than the rest of the letters, letterstrokes are slightly curved, flaring and serifs at the ends of hastae. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.5

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

1st half of III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik 1969, 73, № 40; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 174 (= Bull.ép. 1974, 380); Perlman 2011, 452, № 2. 

Edition

1
Εὐξίθεος
Χαιρομένεος
2
Ἱερὼ Κρονίου
Εὐξιθέου γυνά

Diplomatic

1
ΕΥΞΙΘΕΟΣ
ΧΑΙΡΟΜΕΝΕΟΣ
2
ΙΕΡΩΚΡΟΝΙΟΥ
ΕΥΞΙΘΕΟΥΓΥΝΑ

EpiDoc (XML)

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Commentaries

Buyskikh 2008,192 и 402, рис. 117. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

1

Euxitheos, (son of) Chairomenes.

2

Hiero, (daughter of) Kronios, wife of Euxitheos.

 

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