III 123. Chersonesos. Dedication to Demeter (?), late IV - 1st half of III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Base (?) 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 23.0, W. 20.0, Th. 31.0.

Additional description

Partly preserved top and bottom sides. On the top: trace of a statue's footprint. On the front: two lines of text, cut without ruled lines, but letters are quite even. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Northeast sector of the citadel of Chersonesos, by the apse of Uvarov basilica (№ 23). 

Find circumstances

Random find in 1915. See ОАК за 1913–1915 гг., 1918, 71. 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 70/36504. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with straight crossbar, mu with slanting outer hastae, pi with short right vertical, light serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.0

Text

Category

Dedicatory (?). 

Date

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

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

IOSPE I2 715; Solomonik 1961, 36, № 2; НЭПХ I (Solomonik 1964) I 15. 

Edition

[--- ὑπὲρ τᾶς] γυναι̣[κὸς ---]
[θυγατρὸς ---]Α Δάμα[τρι] vac. .

Diplomatic

[---.......]ΓΥΝΑ.[...---]
[........---]ΑΔΑΜΑ[...]      

EpiDoc (XML)

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         <supplied reason="lost">τᾶς</supplied> γυνα<unclear>ι</unclear><supplied reason="lost">κὸς</supplied> 
         <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> 
      	<lb n="2"/><supplied reason="lost">θυγατρὸς</supplied> <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig>α</orig> 
         <seg part="I">Δάμα<supplied reason="lost">τρι</supplied></seg> 
         <space extent="unknown" unit="character"/>.
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Solomonik 1969, 53, № 46. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Suppl. (№ ipe406).

Translation

[---] (dedicated) to Demeter on behalf of his wife [---, daughter of ---].

 

Commentary

If our restoration is correct, this inscription would constitute the only mention of Demeter in Chersonesian epigraphy.

 

Images

 

(cc) © 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
You may download this inscription in EpiDoc XML. (This file should validate to the EpiDoc schema.)