III 141. Chersonesos. Building inscription of Dioskourides, 2nd half of II - first half of III century C.E.
Monument
Type
Column.
Material
Marble.
Dimensions (cm)
Unknown.
Additional description
Broken off on the top and bottom, split in two. Reused in the construction of a basilica.
Place of Origin
Chersonesos.
Find place
Sevastopol (Chersonesos).
Find context
Northeast sector of the citadel, in the excavations of the Uvarov basilica (№ 23).
Find circumstances
Found in 1853, excavations of A.S. Uvarov.
Institution and inventory
National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, no inventory number.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Slightly elongated letterstrokes, alpha with broken crossbar, four-bar sigma with parallel top and bottom bars; word divisions, ligatures.
Letterheights (cm)
3.0
Text
Category
Building inscription.
Date
2nd half of II - first half of III century C.E.
Dating criteria
Palaeography.
Editions
Stefani 1866, 234, № 2; IOSPE 204; IOSPE I2 441.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/>Διοσσκουρίδης
<lb n="2"/>Διοσσκουρίδου
<lb n="3"/>φιλο<supplied reason="undefined" evidence="previouseditor">τειμ</supplied>ησά
<lb n="4" break="no"/>μενος εἰς τοὺς
<lb n="5"/>κείονας δην
<lb n="6" break="no"/>άρια <num value="500">φ</num>
</ab>
</div> Commentaries
Uvarov 1855, 159 сл; Mansvetov 1872, 78 слл; Pichikyan 1976, 91, 103; Pichikyan 1984, 249; Solomonik 1990, 74, № 68.
Apparatus criticus
Лигатуры ΗΣ, ΜΗ, ΜΕ, HN.
;
подчеркнутые буквы в настоящее время сильно повреждены сколом.
5-6:
δ[η]ν|άρια , однако HN in ligatura читается на камне. IOSPE
6:
по обеим сторонам Φ точки-разделители.
Translation
Dioskourides, (son of) Dioskourides, (dedicated), having donated 500 denarii for the columns.
Images
© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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