III 247. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Euios, late IV - 1st half of III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limstone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.208.0, W.44.0, Th.21.0.

Additional description

Upper part of a stele with cornice (damaged on the front). The back is planed. Below the cornice is a two-line inscription cut following ruled lines and traced in red and blue 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, 40/36847. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front, below the cornice. 

Lettering

Alhpa with slight;y curved crossbar, nu with slightly shorter right vertical; slight flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.2

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

Late IV - 1st half of III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik1969, 69, № 29; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 163 (= Bull.ép., 1974, 380); Perlman2011, 440, № 44. 

Edition

Εὔιος
Θεοφάνεος

Diplomatic

ΕΥΙΟΣ
ΘΕΟΦΑΝΕΟΣ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      	<lb n="1"/>Εὔιος
      	<lb n="2"/>Θεοφάνεος
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Posamentir2011, 53, № 44. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Euios, (son of) Theophanes.

 

Images

 

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