III 97. Chersonesos. Decree with a list of "those who applied their seals", II century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 13.0, W. 12.0, Th. 9.0.

Additional description

Left side of a panel with relief border. Five lines of text. The front is polished. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Northeast sector of the citadel: excavations were conducted in the area of the Eastern basilica (№ 36). 

Find circumstances

Found in the excavations of the Odessa Society for History and Antiquities in 1878-1879. 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 3357. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Cursive epsilon, mu, signa, omega; curving letterstokes of alpha, beta, nu, chi; light serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.3

Text

Category

Decree. 

Date

II century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Yurgevich 1879a, 7, № 3; IOSPE I 227; IOSPE I2 392. 

Edition

[---]
Ἀρί[στων ---]
β´· Εὐρύ̣[δαμος ---]
ἄρχων [---]
Μάρκος Ο̣[ὔλπιος ---]
5γ´· Ζῆθος [---]
[---]

Diplomatic

[---]
ΑΡΙ[....---]
ΒΕΥΡ.[.....---]
ΑΡΧΩΝ[---]
ΜΑΡΚΟΣ.[......---]
5ΓΖΗΘΟΣ[---]
[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

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      <lb n="1"/>Ἀρί<supplied reason="lost">στων</supplied> 
            <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      <lb n="2"/><num value="2">β</num>· 
            Εὐρ<unclear>ύ</unclear><supplied reason="lost">δαμος</supplied> 
            <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      <lb n="3"/>ἄρχων <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      <lb n="4"/>Μάρκος 
            <unclear>Ο</unclear><supplied reason="lost">ὔλπιος</supplied>
            <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      <lb n="5"/><num value="1">γ</num>· Ζῆθος 
            <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      <lb n="5a"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Latyshev 1907, 51, ad № 227. 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: vel Ἀρί[στωνος - - -]
5: Ζῆθος [Ἀρίστωνος ? - - -] IOSPE

Translation

[- - -] Ari[ston - - ]; in the second row: Eury[damos - - -] archon [- - -], Marcus U[lpius - - -]; in the third row: Zethos [- - -]

 

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