III 592. Crimean Scythia. Epitaph, I-II century C.E.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 60, W. 39, Th. 14.

Additional description

Partly broken off on the top and left. On the front - inset relief of a galloping horseman. 

Place of Origin

Crimean Scythia. 

Find place

Fot-Sala (modern Golubinka, Southeast Crimea). 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

Random find by I.L. Ernst, no later than 1941. 

Modern location

Simferopol, Crimea. 

Institution and inventory

Central Museum of Tauris., КП-1161. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Lettering

The inscription is cut by an amateur. 

Letterheights (cm)

3

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

I-II century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography, . 

Editions

Solomonik 1958, 313, № 3. 

Edition

[---]
.ΦΟΥ vac. .

Diplomatic

[---]
·ΦΟΥ      

EpiDoc (XML)

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   <ab>
      	<lb n="0"/>
      <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
      <lb n="1"/>
      <gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/><orig>φου</orig> 
      <space extent="unknown" unit="character"/>.
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Solomonik 1963а, 15. 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: in: Υ̣ vel Π̣ Solomonik 1958

Translation

- - - (son of) [- - -]phos

 

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