III 124. Chersonesos. Dedication (?) on an altar, IV-III century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Limestone ?. 

Dimensions (cm)

Unknown.

Additional description

Fully preserved. On the narrow front side, the beginning of the inscription can be discerned. The panel served as a cover for a low table altar. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Cape Mayachny (Strabo’s Chersonesos). 

Find context

In the area of Kasachy (Cossacks') Bay, on the isthmus of Cape Mayachny (about 10km from the citadel of Chersonesos), during the excavations of a small cult building, attached to a fortification wall. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1900, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (НА НЗХТ, д. 1, № 36; ср. ОАК за 1890 г., 38). Found together with a fragment of a narrow colonnete set in a base, and not far off, a small hearth built from four panels rested on their narrow sides. 

Modern location

Unknown. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. The monument apparently disappeared soon after it had been discovered (Strzheletsky 1948, 103). 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Judging by a drawing in the report of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (see Strzheletsky 1948, 103, fig. 3), the script had nu with short right vertical and sigma with horizontal top and bottom bars. 

Letterheights (cm)

Unknown.

Text

Category

Dedication (?). 

Date

IV-III century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography, archaeological context. 

Editions

IOSPE I2 706. 

Edition

Δι[ο]νύσι[ος? ---]

Diplomatic

ΔΙ[.]ΝΥΣΙ[..---]

EpiDoc (XML)

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   <ab>
      		<lb n="1"/>Δι<supplied reason="lost">ο</supplied>νύσι<supplied reason="lost" cert="low">ος</supplied> 
            <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
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Commentaries

Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich 1891, 60; Bertye-Delagard 1893 1893, 57; Strzheletsky 1948, 102 сл.; Shcheglov 1969, 154; Solomonik 1984 7, № 5; Nikolaenko 1997, 80; Sarnovski, Kovalevskaya 2004, 48. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Δι[ο]νύσι[ος τοῦ δεῖνος ἀνέθηκεν ?] ed. pr.; ΔΙ[.]ΝΥΣI[- - -] Solomonik; ΔΙΟΝΥΣ[- - -] Bertye-Delagard

Translation

Di[o]nysi[os? - - -]

 

Commentary

Other personal names beginning with Διονυσι- are possible.

 

Images

 

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