I 7. Tyras.Fragment of a decree (?), 147 C.E.
Monument
Type
Panel.
Material
Marble, gray.
Dimensions (cm)
H.30.5, W.20.8, Th.4.8-5.0.
Additional description
The front is polished, the back is roughly picked. Left side is treated summarily, showing tooth chisel marks, the bottom is roughly picked. Three joining fragments. Serious fire damage: soot and cracks. In the lower part, multiple deep gashes or notches.
Place of Origin
Tyras.
Find place
Belgorod-Dnestrovsky.
Find context
Central Trench, in a building dated to the period of the Golden Horde.
Find circumstances
Found in 2003, 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-03, сп. 35, № 609.
Autopsy
A.I. Ivantchik, August 2006.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front. Broken of all sides, except the bottom and left. Defaced and damaged by fire. Margins: left 2,8; bottom 13,2. H.15.5, W.18.0
Lettering
Letters are quite neatly and evenly cut, although no ruled lines are visible. Serifs and decorative horizontal strokes on the ends of hastae. Omicron is, in one case, much smaller (1,0cm) than other letters. Two shapes of sigma (rectangular and lunate) are used. Phi with upward and downward extended vertical. Average distance between lines: 1,0cm.
Letterheights (cm)
2.1-2.3
Text
Category
Decree (?)
Date
147 C.E.
Dating criteria
Explicit date.
Editions
Ineditum.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="0"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" quantity="5" unit="character"/><orig><unclear>Η</unclear>Δ</orig><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" quantity="3" unit="character"/><orig><unclear>Ϲ</unclear></orig> <g ref="#denarius"/> <num value="500">φ</num>
<unclear>ἐγ</unclear><supplied reason="lost">ένητο</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">ἐν Τύρᾳ</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost"><expan><abbr>Γ</abbr><ex>αίῳ</ex></expan>
Πραστείνῳ Μεσσαλείνῳ
καὶ</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost"><expan><abbr>Λ</abbr><ex>ουκίῳ</ex></expan>
Ἀννίῳ</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">Λάρ</supplied>
<lb n="3" break="no"/><supplied reason="lost">γῳ</supplied> <unclear>ὑ</unclear>πάτοις <space extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
<supplied reason="lost">ὡς δὲ Τυρανοὶ ἄγουσιν</supplied>
<lb n="4"/><supplied reason="lost">ἔ</supplied><unclear>τ</unclear>ους <num value="91"><hi rend="supraline">αϙ</hi></num>
<space extent="unknown" unit="character"/> <supplied reason="lost">ἀρχόντων δὲ τῶν περὶ</supplied>
<lb n="5"/><orig>ΕΙ</orig><gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="character"/><orig>Ι</orig><gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="character"/><orig>ΛΟΙ</orig><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
</ab>
</div>Apparatus criticus
Translation
[- - -] 500 denarii. Took pl[ace in Tyras], when consuls [were G. Prasteinus Messalina and L. Annius Largus, and as citizens of Tyras hold], in 91st year, [when archons were under the leadership of - - -]
Images
© 2017 Askold Ivantchik (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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