I 41. Tyras (?).Incertum, III century B.C.E. (?).

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble, white. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.8.8, W.10.0, Th.8.5.

Additional description

Top right corner of a panel. Broken off on the bottom and left. Rounded by tidal action. 

Place of Origin

Tyras (?). 

Find place

Karolino-Bugaz, Ovidiopolis district, Odessa region. 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

T. Struve received the stone from L.A. Bilikovich in Akkerman, who in turn received it from a Jewish man. The latter reported that the stone had been found by a boy on a sand dune in Bugaz. 

Modern location

Unknown. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. Broken off on all sides, except the top. 

Lettering

Unknown. According to Latyshev, letterforms point to the III century B.C.E. Letterheight is 1,0 in line, but smaller in other lines. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.0

Text

Category

Unknown. 

Date

III century B.C.E. (?). 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

L1. Struve1867, 608; 1.1. IOSPE I, 6; 2. IOSPE I, add. p. 219; 2.1. IOSPE I2, 12.. 

Edition

[--- Π]οσειδ[..]
[---]ΔΟΝΤΟ̣[.]
[---]ΩΝΤΟΣ
[---]Χ̣ΟΥ
[---]

Diplomatic

[---.]ΟΣΕΙΔ[··]
[---]ΔΟΝΤ.[·]
[---]ΩΝΤΟΣ
[---].ΟΥ
[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

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            <seg part="I"><supplied reason="lost">Π</supplied>οσειδ</seg><gap reason="lost" quantity="2" unit="character"/>
            
         <lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig>ΔΟΝΤ<unclear>Ο</unclear></orig><gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="3"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig>ΩΝΤΟΣ</orig>
      		<lb n="4"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig><unclear>Χ</unclear>ΟΥ</orig>
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Apparatus criticus

1: Π]ΟΣΕΙΔ[ΟΥ]Struve
2: ΜΕ]ΔΟΝΤΟ[ΣStruve
3: ΞΕΝΟΦ]ΩΝΤΟΣStruve
4: ΝΕΟΠΤΟΛΕ]ΜΟΥStruve

Translation

Not attempted.

 

Commentary

The stone was in the collection of the Odessa Arechaeological Museum in 1884, when it was inspected by V.V. Latyshev. In the second half of the first decade of the 21st century, it could no longer be located in the museum.

Latyshev rightly observed that the restorations proposed by Struve are unlikely. In line 1, besides the name Poseidon, a number of other personal theophoric names, with the element Ποσειδ- are possible, and a large variety of names have the endings fitting the combinations of letters in lines 2 and 3. In line 4, the first letter is probably chi and not a mu.

As for the place of find, Latyshev pointed out that the stone looked like it had been rounded by the rolling waves and must have been washed ashore. He also speculated that the stone may have originated in Nikonion and not in Tyras.

 

Images

 

(cc)© 2017 Askold Ivantchik (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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