III 244. Chersonesos.Epitaph of Hermodoros, late IV - 1st half of III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.65.0, W.28.5, Th.15.0.

Additional description

Upper part of a stele with cornice. Upper left corner is broken off. The front and sides are decorated with star-shaped rosettes. Below the rosettes on the front - relief image of a strigil and aryballos hung on a nail. Below the cornice - carved two-line inscription traced in blue paint. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector of Chersonesos, fortification walls, Tower XVII ("Zeno's Tower"), masonry. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1961, excavations of S.F. Strzheletsky (НА НЗХТ, д. 30). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 7/36847. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front, below the cornice. 

Lettering

The inscription is quite sloppily cut, without ruled lines. Mu with slanting outer hastae, omicron and omega smaller than the rest of the letters, slightly curved letterstrokes, slight flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.0

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

Late IV - 1st half of III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik1969, 67, № 25; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 159; SEG 53, 767, № 6; Perlman2011, 447, № 65. 

Edition

Ἑρμόδωρος
Ἀλκίμου

Diplomatic

ΕΡΜΟΔΩΡΟΣ
ΑΛΚΙΜΟΥ

EpiDoc (XML)

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Commentaries

Vinogradov1975, 175; Posamentir2011, 73, № 65. 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: ἩρμόδωροςSolomonik1964

Translation

Hermodoros, (son of) Alkimos.

 

Images

 

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