V 73. Cherson.Epitaph of –ias, VI–VIIth centuries C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.10.5, W.7.5, Th.6.5.

Additional description

Broken on all sides except the left.  

Place of Origin

Cherson. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

1889, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich. 

Modern location

Sevastopol, Crimea. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 34960. 

Autopsy

May 1999, August 2001, September 2002, September 2003, September 2004, September 2005, September 2006, September 2007. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Lapidary. Alpha with a broken hasta; half-diamond sigma. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.5–2.8.

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

VI–VIIth centuries C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

L1. НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973), 119-122, № 134. 

Edition

[---]Α[---]-
ι̣ας [κα-]
τάκ̣[ιτε]
[ἐνθάδε].

Diplomatic

[---]Α[---]
.ΑΣ[..-]
ΤΑ.[...]
[......]

EpiDoc (XML)

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   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig>Α</orig><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><lb n="2" break="no"/><seg part="F"><unclear>ι</unclear>ας</seg>
      <supplied reason="lost">κα</supplied><lb n="3" break="no"/>τά<unclear>κ</unclear><supplied reason="lost">ιτε</supplied>
      <lb n="4"/><supplied reason="lost">ἐνθάδε</supplied>.
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

1: om.Solomonik
2-3: ΙΑΟ ΤΑΝSolomonik
4: om.Solomonik

Translation

...a[...]ias lies here.

 

Commentary

A photograph of the inscription was attached to the typescript of the report about the excavations of 1889 and 1890 in the archive of the National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, but in the register of finds for the year 1890 the monument is not listed; perhaps it was found in 1889 when a detailed registration of finds had not yet been introduced.

2-4. On the formula, see Introduction IV.3.F.d; the reverse order of words is attested in Γιαννόπουλος 1912, 154, № 4 (Thessaly, VIth (?) century)

Diamond-shaped sigma has a parallel in V 60.

 

Images

 Photograph of face (from ??)

(cc)© 2015 Andrey Vinogradov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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