I 63. Tyras.Incertum, III century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble, white. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.8.5, W.6.2, Th.3.9.

Additional description

The front is polished, the back is treated summarily, other sides are broken off. 

Place of Origin

Tyras. 

Find place

Belgorod-Dnestrovsky. 

Find context

In secondary context. 

Find circumstances

Random find in 1982 by V.P. Pushkarev, in the area of the Akkerman fortress. In the same year, given to the museum; field catalogue number БД-82/59. 

Modern location

Odessa. 

Institution and inventory

Odessa Archaeological Museum, 88367. 

Autopsy

A.I. Ivantchik, August 2006. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. Broken off on all sides, except the top. Margins: top - no less than 2,0cm. H.5.4, W.5.9

Lettering

Quite carefully and deeply cut letters, adorned with large serifs and decorative horizontal bars. Diamond-shaped omicron, with all its corners adorned with serifs; phi with projecting vertical. Word divisions in the shape of a leaf. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.4-2.7

Text

Category

Incertum. 

Date

III century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Ineditum. 

Edition

[---]Κ̣ΙΟ[---]
[---]Φ̣ Ο[---]
[---]

Diplomatic

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[---].Ο[---]
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EpiDoc (XML)

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      		<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig><unclear>Φ</unclear></orig> <orig>Ο</orig><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
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Apparatus criticus

Translation

Not attempted.

 

Images

 

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