I 60. Tyras.Incertum, 1st half of III century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble, white. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.4.8, W.8.2, Th.2.7.

Additional description

The front and back are polished, the rest are broken off. 

Place of Origin

Tyras. 

Find place

Belgorod-Dnestrovsky. 

Find context

Excavation trench in the garrison courtyard of the fortress (РК-4), in a mixed layer, but with predominantly Roman material. 

Find circumstances

Found in 2007, excavations of T.L. Samoylova. 

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-07, РК-4, с. 37, № 190. 

Autopsy

A.I. Ivantchik, August 2007. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. Broken off on all sides. H.4.4, W.7.7

Lettering

Quite deeply and neatly, although not evenly cut letters, without ruled lines; adorned with serifs. Horseshoe omega with inward curved ends and two horizontal understrokes. Average distance between lines: 1,0cm. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.8

Text

Category

Incertum. 

Date

1st half of III century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Ineditum. 

Edition

[---]
[---] . ΑΛΕ . [---]
[---] . ἄρχων̣ [---]
[---]

Diplomatic

[---]
[---]·ΑΛΕ·[---]
[---]·ΑΡΧΩ.[---]
[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

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Apparatus criticus

Translation

Not attempted.

 

Images

 

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