III 417. Chersonesos. Epitaph of Helis, II century C.E.

Monument

Type

Ossuary. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 30.0, W. 56.0, Th. 36.0.

Additional description

Ossuary in the shape of rectangular sarcophagus Fully preserved.. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector of Chersonesos, necropolis by the Quarantine Bay. 

Find circumstances

Found in, 1907, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (no information in НА НЗХТ). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 3668. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Cursive epsilon, sigma, mu, omega; wide evenly cut letters, some curved letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.8

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

II century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography, orthography. 

Editions

Latyshev 1908, 24, № 15; IOSPE I2 542 (= Kubińska 1999, 23, № 10). 

Edition

Ἥλις Ἡλίτα Ἀμαστ-
ριανὸς ἔθηκα τὸν
βωμὸν κὲ τὴν ὀσ-
τοθήκην ἐμαυτῷ
5κὲ τῇ γυνεκί μοῦ.

Diplomatic

ΗΛΙΣ ΗΛΙΤΑΑΜΑΣΤ
ΡΙΑΝΟΣΕΘΗΚΑΤΟΝ
ΒΩΜΟΝΚΕΤΗΝΟΣ
ΤΟΘΗΚΗΝΕΜΑΥΤΩ
5ΚΕΤΗΓΥΝΕΚΙΜΟΥ

EpiDoc (XML)

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   <ab>
      	<lb n="1"/>Ἥλις 
      	     Ἡλίτα 
         Ἀμαστ 
      	<lb n="2" break="no"/>ριανὸς ἔθηκα τὸν 
      	<lb n="3"/>βωμὸν κὲ τὴν ὀσ
      	<lb n="4" break="no"/>τοθήκην ἐμαυτῷ 
      	<lb n="5"/>κὲ τῇ γυνεκί μοῦ.
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Solomonik 1990, 91, № 93; Avram 2013, № 170, 171, 357. 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: scripsi Ἦλις Ἡλίτα edd.
3.et.5: κέ = καί
5: γυνεκί = γυναικί

Translation

I, Helis, son of Helis, a man of Amastris, set up this pedestal and ossuary for myself and my wife.

 

Images

 

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