III 307. Chersonesos. Epitaph of Mar[---], II century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 6.0, W. 7.0, Th. 2.0.

Additional description

Broken off on the right and bottom. Remains of three lines of text. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Northeast sector of Chersonesos (Block III, building 47). 

Find circumstances

Found in 1986, excavations of M.I. Zolotarev. 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 12/37119. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with broken crossbar and open top, wide gamma, pi with short right vertical and extended horizontal; large serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.3

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

II century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Unpublished. 

Edition

Μαρ[---]
Ἀπο[---]
γ̣υ̣[νά]

Diplomatic

ΜΑΡ[---]
ΑΠΟ[---]
..[..]

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      	<lb n="1"/><seg part="I">Μαρ</seg><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      	<lb n="2"/><seg part="I">Ἀπο</seg><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      	<lb n="3"/><unclear>γυ</unclear><supplied reason="lost">νά</supplied>
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Mar[---], wife of Apo—

 

Images

 

(cc) © 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
You may download this inscription in EpiDoc XML. (This file should validate to the EpiDoc schema.)