III 428. Chersonesos. Incertum, III - II century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Weight ?. 

Material

Diorite. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 12.0, W. 28.0, Th. 20.0.

Additional description

Fully preserved. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

In the vicinity of Chersonesos, near Streletsky Bay, where in the Hellenistic period there was a fish warehouse" (ed. pr.) 

Find circumstances

Found in 1937. 

Modern location

Unknown. Formerly in Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown Formerly in the Chersonesos Museum (later renamed National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos), no inventory number. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. The monument is considered lost. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Pi with short right vertical. 

Letterheights (cm)

4.0

Text

Category

Unknown. 

Date

III - II century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Shangin 1938, 74, № 2. 

Edition

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Apparatus criticus

2: vestigia

Translation

 

Images

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