I 59. Tyras.Incertum, late II - III century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble, white. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.23.0, W.20.0, Th.5.5.

Additional description

The front and bottom are polished, the other faces are broken off. The bottom of the panel close to the left edge, is preserved. The epigraphic field is surrounded by a profiled border, which is preserved on the bottom and partially on the left. Nicorescu gave the thickness as 55,0cm, but this must be a mistake or typo. I suggest to correct that to 5,5. 

Place of Origin

Tyras. 

Find place

Belgorod-Dnestrovsky. 

Find context

Trench 21, outer courtyard of the fortress, among building remains of the Roman Imperial period. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1929, excavations of Nicorescu. 

Modern location

Unknown. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. Inset field within a border. The bottom left corner is preserved, broken off on the top and right. 

Lettering

Deeply and neatly cut letters with serifs. Alpha with straight crossbar. Rectangular sigma. Ligatures; nu is reduced in size in the last line. Dimensions are according to Nicorescu. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.0

Text

Category

Incertum. 

Date

Late II - III century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

L1. Nicorescu1933, 569, No. 3, fig. 9; 1.1. Karyshkovsky1959, 121, No. 11. 

Edition

[---]
[.]..[---]
Υ̣ΠΙΩ̣[---]
ΔΙΩΝΑΠ̣[---]
σαν ἐν τῷ [...ἔτει ---]

Diplomatic

[---]
[·]··[---]
.ΠΙ.[---]
ΔΙΩΝΑ.[---]
ΣΑΝΕΝΤΩ[···....---]

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      		<lb n="0"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
         <lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="character"/><gap reason="illegible" unit="character" quantity="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="2"/><orig><unclear>Υ</unclear>ΠΙ<unclear>Ω</unclear></orig><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="3"/><orig>ΔΙΩΝΑ<unclear>Π</unclear></orig><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="4"/><w part="F">σαν</w> ἐν τῷ <gap reason="lost" quantity="3" unit="character"/><supplied reason="lost">ἔτει</supplied>
            <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

4: SA in ligatura

Translation

Not attempted.

 

Commentary

The fate of this inscription, as well as of the others from the excavations of Nicorescu, is unknown: it has not been possible to locate them in Belgorod, Jasi, or Bucarest.

1: bottom parts of two vertical strokes are preserved; these may represent one or two letters.

2: here we may restore a personal name which contains –ΥΠΙΩ-, e.g. Ἀλυπίων, Εὐπίων, Γρυπίων, or a demotic Προυσιεὺς πρὸς τῷ Ὑπίῳ (cf. a near contemporary Olbian decree in honour of Markianos, son of Domnion, from Prusa, SEG 34.766). 3: we may restore a name ending in -διων and a patronymic in Απ-. Alternatively: ἐκ τῶν ἰ]δίων. None of these restorations can be considered secure.

4: In the last line, we should probably expect a dating formula.

 

Images

 

(cc)© 2017 Askold Ivantchik (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
You may download this inscription in EpiDoc XML. (This file should validate to theEpiDoc schema.)