III 253. Chersonesos. Epitaph of Herakl[---], III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 162.0, W. 33.0, Th. 15.0.

Additional description

Stele with cornice and antefixes (damaged). Top right side is damaged, the dowel is missing. In several fragments. The front, back, and sides are decorated with relief rosettes. On the front - relief image of a sword and sword belt. 

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 1960, excavations of S.F. Strzheletsky (НА НЗХТ, д. 30). 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russia. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Х.1968.3. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Between the cornice and rosettes. 

Lettering

Painted in black. Omicron smaller than the rest of the letters. Letterstrokes are slightly curving, flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.2

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik 1969, 65, № 18; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 152 (= Bull.ép. 1974, 380); SEG, 53, 767, № 1; Perlman 2011, 432, № 6. 

Edition

Ἡρ̣ακ̣λε̣ι
Τιβείο[υ]

Diplomatic

Η.Α.Λ.Ι
ΤΙΒΕΙΟ[.]

EpiDoc (XML)

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Commentaries

Posamentir 2011, 19, № 6. 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: Ἡράκλ[ε]̣ι[ος] Solomonik

Translation

Herakl(---), (son of) Tibeios.

 

Images

 

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