III 293. Chersonesos. Epitaph of a woman, 2nd half of III century B.C.Е.
Monument
Type
Stele.
Material
Marble.
Dimensions (cm)
H. 8.7, W. 10.5, Th. 2.5.
Additional description
Broken off on the left. The epigraphic field is outlined with relief border.
Place of Origin
Chersonesos.
Find place
Sevastopol (Chersonesos).
Find context
Southeast sector of Chersonesos, necropolis on the shore of the Quarantine Bay ("left of highway on the east slope of Devichy (Maiden) Hill) in Grave 70(9).
Find circumstances
Found in 1910, excavations of R.Ch. Loeper (НА НЗХТ, д. 103, л. 14, № 728; д. 71, л. 70; ср. Лепер 1927, 223).
Modern location
Sevastopol.
Institution and inventory
National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 20977.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Nu with nearly even verticals, omicron smaller than other letters, sigma with nearly horiontal top and bottom bars, slightly curved letterstrokes, slight flaring of the ends of letterstrokes.
Letterheights (cm)
1.2
Text
Category
Epitaph.
Date
2nd half of III century B.C.Е.
Dating criteria
Palaeography.
Editions
НЭПХ I (Solomonik 1964) 34.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" quantity="3" unit="character" precision="low"/>
<gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/><seg part="F">ια</seg>
<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="F"><unclear>κ</unclear>λείου</seg>
<lb n="3"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" rend="#person645"/><seg part="F">εος</seg>
<lb n="4"/><supplied reason="lost">γυ</supplied>νά.
</ab>
</div> Commentaries
Loeper 1927, 223.
Apparatus criticus
Translation
Not attempted.
Images
© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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