V 73. Cherson. Epitaph of –ias, VI–VIIth centuries C.E.
Monument
Type
Panel.
Material
Limestone.
Dimensions (cm)
H. 10.5, W. 7.5, Th. 6.5.
Additional description
Broken on all sides except the left.
Place of Origin
Cherson.
Find place
Sevastopol (Chersonesos).
Find context
Unknown.
Find circumstances
1889, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich.
Modern location
Sevastopol, Crimea.
Institution and inventory
National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 34960.
Autopsy
May 1999, August 2001, September 2002, September 2003, September 2004, September 2005, September 2006, September 2007.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Lapidary. Alpha with a broken hasta; half-diamond sigma.
Letterheights (cm)
2.5–2.8.
Text
Category
Epitaph.
Date
VI–VIIth centuries C.E.
Dating criteria
Palaeography.
Editions
L1. НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973), 119-122, № 134.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig>Α</orig><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><lb n="2" break="no"/><seg part="F"><unclear>ι</unclear>ας</seg>
<supplied reason="lost">κα</supplied><lb n="3" break="no"/>τά<unclear>κ</unclear><supplied reason="lost">ιτε</supplied>
<lb n="4"/><supplied reason="lost">ἐνθάδε</supplied>.
</ab>
</div> Apparatus criticus
1: om. Solomonik
2-3: ΙΑΟ ΤΑΝ Solomonik
4: om. Solomonik
Translation
...a[...]ias lies here.
Commentary
A photograph of the inscription was attached to the typescript of the report about the excavations of 1889 and 1890 in the archive of the National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, but in the register of finds for the year 1890 the monument is not listed; perhaps it was found in 1889 when a detailed registration of finds had not yet been introduced.
2-4. On the formula, see Introduction IV.3.F.d; the reverse order of words is attested in Γιαννόπουλος 1912, 154, № 4 (Thessaly, VIth (?) century)
Diamond-shaped sigma has a parallel in V 60.
Images
© 2015 Andrey Vinogradov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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