III 383. Chersonesos. Family epitaph, II century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 31.0, W. 38.0, Th. 12.0.

Additional description

Bottom right corner of a panel. Relief of a woman and servant, framed by a column on the right. Three-line inscription below the relief. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector of Chersonesos, excavation trench outside Curtain Wall 19 of the fortification walls. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1900, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 3688. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with broken crossbar, theta with detached crossbar, sigma with horizontal top and bottom bars, rho with small loop; moderate serifs, word divisions. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.7

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

II century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

IOSPE IV 465 (= Latyshev 1902 , 61, II); IOSPE I2 460. 

Edition

[--- Ἡρ]ακλείδου ἐτῶν ξε´
[--- Ν]εικασὼ θυγάτηρ
[---] ἐτῶν λ´, χαῖρε.

Diplomatic

[---..]ΑΚΛΕΙΔΟΥΕΤΩΝΞΕ
[---.]ΕΙΚΑΣΩΘΥΓΑΤΗΡ
[---]ΕΤΩΝΛΧΑΙΡΕ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> 
         <supplied reason="lost">Ἡρ</supplied>ακλείδου 
         ἐτῶν <num value="65">ξε</num>
      <lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> <supplied reason="lost">Ν</supplied>εικασὼ θυγάτηρ 
      <lb n="3"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> 
         ἐτῶν <num value="30">λ</num>, χαῖρε.
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Kieseritzky, Watzinger 1909, № 329; Античная скульптура Херсонеса 1976, № 315. 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: [ὁ δεῖνα Ἡρ]ακλείδου IOSPE; [- - - γυνὴ Ἡρ]ακλείδου Kieseritzky
2: [καὶ Ν]εικασὼ IOSPE
3: по обеим сторонам Λ точки-разделители.

Translation

[--- of Her]aklidos, 65 years old, [---N]eikaso, daughter [of ---], 30 years old. Greeting.

 

Commentary

On the imperative forms, singular and plural, of the verb χαίρω in epitaph, see Latyshev IOSPE I2, p. 415 (ad № 453): «... explicuit Stephanius, ut non ad defunctos χαῖρε illud est conversum, sed a defunctis ad viatorem (cf. formulam solemnem τοῖς παράγουσι χαίρειν)».

Latyshev 1902, 61, II, with an addition of a photograph.

АСХ, № 315 (date: mid- or second half of I century C.E.).

 

Images

 

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