III 273. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Nana, late IV - early III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.96.0, W.37.5, Th.20.0.

Additional description

Stele with a cornice (missing on the front), which has an aperture (6 x 7 cm) for the attachment of a pediment or anthemium. Broken off at the bottom. The front and sides are adorned with relief rosettes. Between the cornice and rosettes: three-line inscription is cut and traced in black paint. On the sides: pained ribbons. 

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, 28/36847. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front, between the cornice and rosettes. 

Lettering

Narrow epsilon with a short middle bar, nu with short right hasta, slightly elongated omega, slight flaring of the ends of hastae. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.4

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

Late IV - early III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik 1969, 72, № 34; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 168 (= Bull.ép., 1974, 380); Perlman 2011, 448, № 70. 

Edition

Νάνα Ἡρέα,
Ἀπολλωνίου
γυνά.

Diplomatic

ΝΑΝΑ ΗΡΕΑ
ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ
ΓΥΝΑ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      	<lb n="1"/>Νάνα 
      	     Ἡρέα, 
      	<lb n="2"/>Ἀπολλωνίου 
      	<lb n="3"/>γυνά.
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Danilyenko 1969, 39; Posamentir 2011, 78, № 70. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Nana, (daughter of) Hereas, wife of Apollonios.

 

Images

 

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