III 434. Chersonesos.Incertum, late II century B.C.E. - 1st half of I century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.9.5, W.9.5.

Additional description

Top right corner with traces of a pediment. Remains of two lines of text. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1903, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich. 

Modern location

Sevastopol (at least until 1916). 

Institution and inventory

Unknown Formerly in Museum of Chersonesos (later renamed National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos) (at least until 1916)., no inventory number. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. The monument is considered lost. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Small letters, oval omicron, four-bar sigma with horizontal top and bottom bars. 

Letterheights (cm)

0.9

Text

Category

Unknown. 

Date

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

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Latyshev1905, 110, № 22; IOSPE I2 350. 

Edition

[---].ανθος Ἡρακλε-
[---]Τ[---] .[---]
[---]

Diplomatic

[---]·ΑΝΘΟΣΗΡΑΚΛΕ
[---]Τ[---]·[---]
[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/><w part="F">ανθος</w> 
         <seg part="I">Ἡρακλε</seg>
      <lb n="2" break="no"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig>Τ</orig><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      <gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      <lb n="2a"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

1-2: [- - - Χρύ]σ̣ανθος Ἡρακλε/[ίδα - - -]IOSPE; [ - - -Πρόμ]ηθος Ἡρακλε/[ίδα - - -] ed. pr.

Translation

Not attempted.

 

Commentary

1: [- - -] Ξ̣άνθος cannot be excluded

2: other personal names starting with Ἡρακλε- are possible.

 

Images

 

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