I 42. Tyras.Incertum, III-II century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.3.7, W.5.6, Th.5.2.

Additional description

The front and right side are polished, the other sides are broken off. 

Place of Origin

Tyras. 

Find place

Belgorod-Dnestrovsky. 

Find context

In secondary context; surface find. 

Find circumstances

Found in 2008. 

Modern location

Odessa. 

Institution and inventory

Department of Archaeology of the Northern Black Sea Coast, Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, field catalogue number - БТЭ-08, п.м. № 154. 

Autopsy

A.I. Ivantchik, September 2008. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. Broken off on all sides, except the right. Margins: right 0,5. H.2.6, W.4.8

Lettering

Deeply and neatly cut letters, with small serifs. Pi with short right vertical, omega smaller than other letters. Average distance between lines: 0,4cm. 

Letterheights (cm)

0.8-0.9

Text

Category

Incertum. 

Date

III-II century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Ineditum. 

Edition

[---]
[---]λ̣ιων
[---]α̣ ἐπὶ σ̣
[---]

Diplomatic

[---]
[---].ΙΩΝ
[---].ΕΠΙ.
[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

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      		<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><w part="F"><unclear>λ</unclear>ιων</w>
      		<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><w part="F"><unclear>α</unclear></w> ἐπὶ <w part="I"><unclear>σ</unclear></w>
      		<lb n="2a"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
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   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Not attempted.

 

Images

 

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