III 256. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Herodotos, III century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.81.0, W.33.0, Th.14.5.

Additional description

Upper part of a stele adorned by a cornice with antefixes (partly lost). Broken in two pieces. The back is treated summarily. The front is decorated with rosettes. Between the cornice and rosettes, a two-line inscription is painted in black. 

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

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 13/36847. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front, between the cornice and rosettes. 

Lettering

Omicron sligthly smaller than other letters; alpha, lambda, sigma have slightly curved letterstrokes; flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.0

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

III century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik 1969, 65, № 19; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 153; Perlman 2011, 433, № 21. 

Edition

Ἡ̣ρόδοτος
Ἀπολλᾶ

Diplomatic

.ΡΟΔΟΤΟΣ
ΑΠΟΛΛΑ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      	<lb n="1"/><unclear>Ἡ</unclear>ρόδοτος
      	<lb n="2"/>Ἀπολλᾶ
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Danilyenko 1966, 172; Posamentir 2011, 32, № 21. 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: [Ἡ]ρόδοτοςSolomonik; ἩρόδοτοςPerlman

Translation

Herodotos, (son of) Apollas.

 

Images

 

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