III 216. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Aischinas, late IV - 1st half of III century B.C.E.
Monument
Type
Stele.
Material
Limestone.
Dimensions (cm)
H.108.0, W.31.5, Th.15.0.
Additional description
Upper part of a stele bearing cornice with antefixes. On the front - two relief rosettes. Between the cornice and rosettes - a two-line inscription cut following ruled lines. Below the rosettes - knobbly stick painted in brown.
Place of Origin
Chersonesos.
Find place
Sevastopol (Chersonesos).
Find context
Southeast sector of Chersonesos, fortification walls, Tower XVII ("Zeno's Tower"), masonry.
Find circumstances
Found in 1960, excavations of S.F. Strzheletsky (НА НЗХТ, д. 30).
Modern location
St Petersburg, Russia
Institution and inventory
The State Hermitage Museum, Х.1974.1.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Omicron smaller than other letters, nu with short right vertical, four-bar sigma with splayed bars, some letters have lightly curving strokes, slight flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. Letters are somewhat sloppily cut, without the use of ruled lines.
Letterheights (cm)
1.8
Text
Category
Epitaph.
Date
Late IV - 1st half of III century B.C.E.
Dating criteria
Palaeography.
Editions
Solomonik1969, 68, № 27; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 161; Perlman2011, 434, № 27.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/>Αἰσχίνας
<lb n="2"/>Γέροντος.
</ab>
</div>
Commentaries
Posamentir2011, 38, № 27.
Apparatus criticus
Translation
Aischinas, (son of) Geron.
Commentary
Posamentir (2011, 38) attributes the stele to the "circle of Sannion's workshop." Other attestations of the name in Chersonesos, see LGPN IV.
© 2017 Igor
Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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