III 394. Chersonesos.Epitaph on sarcophagus, 2nd half of II century C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall of a sarcophagus. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.80.0, W.105.0, Th.16.0.

Additional description

Right side of a sacrophagus wall, in four fragments. The front is worked with tooth chisel, but not polished (only the relief is polished); the back is roughly picked. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

North sector of the citadel, basilica of the VI century, used in the floor pavement. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1935, excavations of G.D. Belov (НА НЗХТ, д. 332, № 157 и 1845). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 1/35673. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with broken crossbar, cursive omega, light serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.3

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

2nd half of II century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Shangin1938, 81, № 10. 

Edition

[---]ΩΣ
[---]Ν
[ - - - - - - - - - - ?] vac.
[---]Α ΕΥ
5[---]ΝΘΑ

Diplomatic

[---]ΩΣ
[---]Ν
[ - - - - - - - - - - ?]      
[---]ΑΕΥ
5[---]ΝΘΑ

EpiDoc (XML)

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      		<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig>ως</orig>
      		<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig>ν</orig>
      		<lb n="3"/><gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="line"><certainty match=".." locus="name"/></gap><space extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="4"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig>α</orig> <orig>ευ</orig>
      		<lb n="5"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig>νθα</orig>
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   </div>
Commentaries

Belov1938, 42; Belov1940, 269; Античная скульптура Херсонеса1976, № 473. 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: [καλ]ῶςShangin
3: om.Shangin
4-5: [- - - ζήσασ?]α εὐ|[γενῶς . . . ἐνθά|[δε]Shangin

Translation

Not attempted.

 

Images

 

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