III 353. Chersonesos. Epitaph of unknown with sculpted relief, 2nd half of I century C.E.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 68.0, W. 43.0, Th. 19.0.

Additional description

Funerary stele of "Bosporan type." Wide panel, split in two pieces, the left side is damaged by fire and partly broken off. Traces of secondary use. The relief shows two female and two male figures. The inscription is below the relief and is poorly preserved. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

West sector of Chersonesos, near the fortification wall (Block XII, layer 2). 

Find circumstances

Found in 1929, excavations of K.E. Grinevich (НА НЗХТ, д. 298, № 31958). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 35227. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with broken crossbar, pi with verticals of equal height and extended horizontal; light serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.4

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

2nd half of I century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

НЭПХ I (Solomonik 1964) 54. 

Edition

[---]
[---]ΠΟ[---],
χαῖρε.

Diplomatic

[---]
[---]ΠΟ[---]
ΧΑΙΡΕ

EpiDoc (XML)

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   <ab>
      	<lb n="0"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      	<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="Y"><orig>ΠΟ</orig></seg><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>,
      	<lb n="2"/>χαῖρε.
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Античная скульптура Херсонеса 1976, № 380. 

 
Apparatus criticus

legit. Solomonik

Translation

[---], greeting.

 

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.)