I 18. Tyras.Dedication to Egyptian gods, II-I century B.C.E.
Monument
Type
Panel.
Material
Marble, white.
Dimensions (cm)
H.5.1, W.6.7, Th.4.2.
Additional description
The front is polished, the back is planed and smoothed, the rest are broken off.
Place of Origin
Tyras.
Find place
Belgorod-Dnestrovsky.
Find context
In the central excavation trench in Tyras, during the restoration of collapsed trench sides.
Find circumstances
Found in 2006, excavations of T.L. Samoylova.
Modern location
Odessa.
Institution and inventory
Odessa Archaeological Museum, Field catalogue number БТЭ-06, ЦР, сп. 35, № 290.
Autopsy
A.I. Ivantchik, August 2006.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front. Broken off on all sides. H.5.1, W.5.9
Lettering
Deeply and neatly cut letters, probably following ruled lines, although there are no traces of the latter; light serifs; omicron smaller than other letters; pi with extended horizontal; theta with attached crossbar. Average distance between lines: 0,5cm.
Letterheights (cm)
0.7-0.8
Text
Category
Dedicatory inscription.
Date
II-I century B.C.E.
Dating criteria
Palaeography.
Editions
L1. Ivanchyk, Samoylova2007; 1.1. SEG 57, 746; 1.2. Bull.ép. 2008, 389.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="0"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/><orig>Ο</orig><gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
<supplied reason="lost">Σ</supplied><unclear>α</unclear>ράπ<supplied reason="lost">ιδι,</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost">Ἴσιδι,</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost">Ἀνού</supplied>
<lb n="3" break="no"/><supplied reason="lost">βιδι</supplied> θεοῖς
<unclear>σ</unclear><supplied reason="lost">υννάοις</supplied>
<lb n="4"/><supplied reason="lost">Δημ</supplied><unclear>ή</unclear>τριος
<supplied reason="lost"><note>τοῦ δεῖνος</note></supplied>
<lb n="4a"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
</ab>
</div>
Apparatus criticus
Translation
{- - - to S]arap[is, Isis, Anubis], the gods [sharing a temple, Dem]etrios, [son of - - -].
Commentary
On the worship of the Egyptian divine triad in Tyras, see Ivantchik, Samoylova 2007, with bibliography, and I 17.
© 2017 Askold Ivantchik (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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