III 369. Chersonesos. Epitaph of Skythas, late I - 1st half of II century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 43.0, W. 57.0, Th. 24.0.

Additional description

Thin panel inset in a large limestone block. Consists of several joining fragments. The front is well worked. A relief bust protrait of a man in the left half of the panel, with a two-line inscription below the relief. To the right of the male relief, an empty space was probably reserved for the portrait of the wife of the deceased. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector of Chersonesos, "citadel." 

Find circumstances

Found in 1907, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich. 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 3663. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with straight crossbar, cursive epsilon (alongside rectangular) and sigma, theta with attached crossbar, oval omicron the size of other letters, small serifs and flaring of the ends of hastae; interpuncta; ligatures. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.5

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

Late I - 1st half of II century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Latyshev 1908, 19, № 6; IOSPE I2 493. 

Edition

Σκύθας Θεαγέ-
νου, ζήσας ἔτη λε´

Diplomatic

ΣΚΥΘΑΣΘΕΑΓΕ
ΝΟΥΖΗΣΑΣΕΤΗΛΕ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/>Σκύθας 
         Θεαγέ
      <lb n="2" break="no"/>νου, ζήσας ἔτη <num value="35">λε</num>
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Ivanova 1941, 110; Античная скульптура Херсонеса 1976, № 359; Solomonik 1990, № 90. 

 
Apparatus criticus

2: ΤΗ in ligatura; перед Λ точка разделитель.

Translation

Skythas, son of Theagenes, having lived 35 years.

 

Commentary

Ivanova (1941, 110) dates the relief and inscription to the time of the Antonines.

 

Images

 

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