III 559. Chersonesos.Incertum, late II - 1st half of III century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.9.5, W.9.0, Th.3.7.

Additional description

Broken off on all sides. Three-line inscription cut following ruled lines. The front and back are polished. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

West sector of Chersonesos, round tower of the western fortification wall. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1911, excavations of R.Ch. Loeper (НА НЗХТ, д. 104, л. 4, № 339; д. 77, 19/07/11, № 339). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 34979. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Rather narrow letters, left hasta of triangular letters is nearly vertical, diamond-shaped omicron; light serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.0

Text

Category

Incertum (epitaph?). 

Date

Late II - 1st half of III century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

IOSPE I2 722. 

Edition

[---]
vac. 7 litt. [---?]
[---]κ̣αὶ δαιμον[---]
[---π]αρεσφήλατ[ο---]
[---]...[---]
[---]

Diplomatic

[---]
              [---?]
[---].ΑΙΔΑΙΜΟΝ[---]
[---.]ΑΡΕΣΦΗΛΑΤ[.---]
[---]···[---]
[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      		<lb n="00"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
      		<lb n="0"/><space quantity="7" unit="character" precision="low"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"><certainty match=".." locus="name"/></gap>
      		<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><unclear>κ</unclear>αὶ δαιμον<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><supplied reason="lost">π</supplied>αρεσφήλατ<supplied reason="lost">ο</supplied><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="3"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><gap reason="illegible" quantity="3" unit="character"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="3a"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

0: vacat
1: [κ]αὶ ed. pr.

Translation

Not attempted.

 

Images

 

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