III 259. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Herophantos, 2nd half of III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.43.0, W.29.0, Th.12.5.

Additional description

Upper part of a stele adorned with cornice and antefixes (right is broken off). On the front: two relief rosettes and relief sword belt. On the sides: one rosette on each. On the front, above the rosettes, the marble plaque is inserted into a rectangular depression. Two-line inscription is cut on the plaque and traced in red paint. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector of Chersonesos, southwest area of the necropolis by the Quarantine Bay, rock-cut cist tomb 115 (49)1. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1910, excavations of R.Ch. Loeper (НА НЗХТ, д. 103, л. 19, № 1038; д. 71, л. 74). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 4609. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front; on a marble plaque inserted into a rectangular cut-out. 

Lettering

Alpha with slightly sagging crossbar, theta and omicron smaller than other letters, nu with even verticals, sigma with slightly splayed bars, noticeable flaring of the ends of hastae; serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.4

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

2nd half of III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

НЭПХ I (Solomonik 1964) 32. 

Edition

Ἡρόφαντος
Θεοφάντου.

Diplomatic

ΗΡΟΦΑΝΤΟΣ
ΘΕΟΦΑΝΤΟΥ

EpiDoc (XML)

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   <ab>
      	<lb n="1"/>Ἡρόφαντος
      	<lb n="2"/>Θεοφάντου.
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Loeper1927, 228; Kolesnikova1961,16; Античная скульптура Херсонеса1976 72, № 180; Posamentir2011, 89, № C8. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Herophantos, (son of) Theophantos.

 

Commentary

Both theophoric names are attested on funerary monuments of the IV-III centuries B.C.E. (III 222, III 263), also found in the southeast sector of Chersonesos, but we have no data to establish familial relations between the name-bearers. Cf. also similar personal names attested in Chersonesos: Ἡροφάνης and Θεοφάνης (LGPN IV).

 

Images

 

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