III 267. Chersonesos. Epitaph of Kammis, III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 38.0, W. 33.5, Th. 16.5.

Additional description

Upper part of a stele with cornice. Top left corner is broken off. The back is treated summarily. Below the cornice - two-line inscription cut in thin strokes and traced in black 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 1960, excavations of S.F. Strzheletsky (НА НЗХТ, д. 30). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 25/36504. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front, below the cornice. 

Lettering

Nu with short right vertical, mu with slanting outer hastae, omicron slightly smaller than other letters. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.0

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 177 (= Bull.ép., 1974, 380); Perlman 2011, 444, № 55. 

Edition

Κάμμις
Ἀντιφίλου.

Diplomatic

ΚΑΜΜΙΣ
ΑΝΤΙΦΙΛΟΥ

EpiDoc (XML)

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      		<lb n="1"/>Κάμμις
      		<lb n="2"/>Ἀντιφίλου.
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Commentaries

Posamentir 2011, 63, № 55. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Kammis, (son of) Antiphilos.

 

Commentary

Personal name Κάμμις is not otherwise attested. Предлагалась видеть в нем одноосновное имя группы καμεῖν (Bechtel, HPN 234) с экспрессивной геминацией (Robert 1966, 117). Cf. the name Καμις (Беотия, SEG 19, 352; LGPN III.B).

 

Images

 

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