III 268. Chersonesos. Epitaph of Kinolis, 2nd half of IV century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 185.0, W. 37.5, Th. 22.0.

Additional description

Stele with a cornice, split into two pieces. Almost fully preserved. Two-line inscription is cut in deep strokes and traced in blue paint. Below the inscription - relief of a knife, with traces of 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, 4/36847. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Nu with a slightly raised right vertical, omicron slightly smaller than other letters, pi with short right vertical, four-bar sigma with splayed bars; narrow omega with {splayed legs?}, slight flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.2

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

2nd half of IV century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik 1969, 62, № 9; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 143 (= Bull.ép.1974, 380); SEG 53, 767, № 7; Perlman 2011, 440, № 45. 

Edition

Κίνωλις
Πασίχου

Diplomatic

ΚΙΝΩΛΙΣ
ΠΑΣΙΧΟΥ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      		<lb n="1"/>Κίνωλις
      		<lb n="2"/>Πασίχου
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Danilyenko 1969, 37слл; Posamentir 2006, 54; Posamentir 2011, 54, № 45. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Kinolis, (son of) Pasichos.

 

Images

 

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