III 493. Chersonesos.Incertum, II century C.E.

Monument

Type

Cornice. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.32.0, W.38.0, Th.24.0.

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

South sector of Chersonesos ("on the acropolis"), the area of the third-century B.C. theatre (northteast of the last "Cruciform Church with Reliquary," possibly on the site of the current Antiquities section of the Museum. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1903, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (НА НЗХТ, д. 12, л. 21, № 227; д. 32, № 227). 

Modern location

Sevastopol,Crimea. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 3613. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Monumental script of the Roman period, large deeply cut letters; serifs, word divisions. 

Letterheights (cm)

8.0

Text

Category

Incertum. 

Date

II century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Latyshev1905, 56, № IA,1 (= IOSPE I2 595) (без чтения). 

Edition

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Commentaries

НЭПХ I (Solomonik 1964) II 102, прим. 31 (археологический контекст); Pichikyan1976, 252 (тип памятника).. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Not attempted.

 

Images

 

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