I 54. Tyras. Incertum, II - III century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble, white with grayish tinge. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 9.5, W. 7.1, Th. 2.7.

Additional description

The front and back are polished, the other sides are broken off. The stone has suffered fire damage and is heavily sooted. 

Place of Origin

Tyras. 

Find place

Belgorod-Dnestrovsky. 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

Unknown. The find was probably made before 1948, on the territory or in the vicinity of the fortress; in the museum inventory book, it was entered on 22.09.1948. 

Modern location

Belgorod-Dnestrovsky. 

Institution and inventory

Belgorod-Dnestrovsky Regional Studies Museum, А-4667, КП-38252. 

Autopsy

A. I. Ivantchik, August 2006. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. Broken off on all sides; heavily sooted. H. 8.0, W. 6.4

Lettering

Deeply, evenly and neatly cut letters. Elongated oval omicron. Mu (or M) with slanting outer hastae. Word divisions in the shape of a leaf. Average distance between lines: 1,0cm. 

Letterheights (cm)

More than 3.0

Text

Category

Incertum. 

Date

II - III century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

L1. Karyshkovsky 1963, 106, № 11, рис. 4,11. 

Edition

[---]
[---]Μ̣ ❦ .[---]
[---]Ο̣ .[---]
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Diplomatic

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EpiDoc (XML)

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      		<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig><unclear>Μ</unclear></orig> <g ref="#leaf"/> 
               <gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig><unclear>Ο</unclear></orig> 
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Apparatus criticus

Translation

Not attempted.

 

Commentary

It is unclear whether the inscription is Greek or Latin. In line 2, after omicron, a left top edge of another letter (perhaps an ypsilon) is preserved.

 

Images

 

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