III 406. Chersonesos. Epitaph of a couple, III century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 10.5, W. 11.5, Th. 2.5.

Additional description

Right corner of a panel, with a three-line inscription cut following ruled lines. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

Unknown. 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 117/36504. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Letters are deeply, but not very evenly cut; some letterstrokes are slightly slanting (crossbar of alpha, middle bar of epsilon), flaring and serifs at the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.5

Text

Category

Epitaph (?) 

Date

III century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

НЭПХ I (Solomonik 1964) 91. 

Edition

[---]
[---]κ̣ε̣ῖ̣
[ται?---] .ιλία Εὐ
[---με]τ’ αὐτοῦ
[ζήσασα?---]
[---]

Diplomatic

[---]
[---]...
[...---]·ΙΛΙΑΕΥ
[---..]ΤΑΥΤΟΥ
[......---]
[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="0"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
      <lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><w part="F"><unclear>κεῖ</unclear></w>
      <lb n="2"/><supplied reason="lost" cert="low">ται</supplied><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      <gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/><seg part="F">ιλία</seg> 
         <seg part="I">Εὐ</seg>
      <lb n="3"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><supplied reason="lost">με</supplied>τ’ αὐτοῦ
      <lb n="4"/><supplied reason="lost" cert="low">ζήσασα</supplied><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      <lb n="4a"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

2: в начале стк. нижняя часть наклонной гасты, e.g.: Κιλία (cf. № ipe455), Αἰλία и т.п., далее патронимик или cognomen на Εὐ-.
3-4: cf. Studia Pontica III 81: τεκνώσασα μετ’ αὐτοῦ ταὐτοῦ Solomonik

Translation

[---] li[es, ---]lia Eu[---, who lived with] him [---].

 

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.)