III 328. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Pasion, late II - 1st half of I century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.7.5, W.14.0, Th.2.0.

Additional description

Fully preserved except for the top right corner. Broken in two joining fragments. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

South sector of Chersonesos, necropolis by the southern fortification wall (between the monastery gates and Tomb 1009, soil deposit. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1904, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (НА НЗХТ, д. 33, л. 1, № 245; д. 13, № 245). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 4779. 

Autopsy

 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with broken crossbar, pi with even verticals and slightly extended horizontal, four-bar sigma with parallel top and bottom bars; slight flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.5

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

Late II - 1st half of I century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Latyshev1905, 108, № 18; IOSPE I2 487. 

Edition

Πασίω̣ν̣
Ἀπολλᾶ.

Diplomatic

ΠΑΣΙ..
ΑΠΟΛΛΑ

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Kieseritzky, Watzinger1909, № 15g. 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: Πασί[ων]Latyshev,IOSPE

Translation

Pasion, (son of) Apollas.

 

Images

  

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