III 231. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Damatrios, late IV - early III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.57.0, W.38.0, Th.15.0.

Additional description

Stele with a cornice (broken off in secondary use). Upper part is preserved. Beolw the cornice: two-line inscription cut following ruled lines and traced in red paint. 

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 1961, excavations of S.F. Strzheletsky (НА НЗХТ, д. 30). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 42/36847. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front, below the cornice. 

Lettering

Mu with nearly vertical outer hastae, nu with a raised right vertical, round letters (theta and omicron) slightly smaller than other letters; slight flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.6

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

Late IV - early III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik1969, 66, № 21; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 155; Perlman2011, 435, № 35. 

Edition

Δαμάτριος
Εὐάνθεος

Diplomatic

ΔΑΜΑΤΡΙΟΣ
ΕΥΑΝΘΕΟΣ

EpiDoc (XML)

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Commentaries

Posamentir2006, 39; Posamentir2011, 44, № 35. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Damatrios, (son of) Euanthes.

 

Images

 

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