III 321. Chersonesos.Epitaph of a woman, II century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.7.0, W.6.3, Th.3.7.

Additional description

Broken off on the left. Remains of four lines of text. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

North sector of the citadel, Block XVIII (cistern «Д»). 

Find circumstances

Found in 1948, excavations of G.D. Belov (НА НЗХТ, д. 104, л. 39, № 3007). 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russia. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Х.1948.56. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with broken crossbar and open top, nu with short vertical, omicron nearly the same size as other letters, pi with short right vertical and extended horizontal. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.2

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

II century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 182. 

Edition

[---]ΑΠΟΛ̣
[---]ου Α[.]-
[---]χου
[γυ]νά

Diplomatic

[---]ΑΠΟ.
[---]ΟΥΑ[·]
[---]ΧΟΥ
[..]ΝΑ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      	<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig>ΑΠΟ<unclear>Λ</unclear></orig>   
      	<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="F">ου</seg> 
            Α<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="character"/> 
      	<lb n="2" break="no"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>χου
      	<lb n="3"/><supplied reason="lost">γυ</supplied>νά 
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Not attempted.

 

Images

 

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