III 131. Chersonesos.Building inscription relating to fish market, late 1st - 1st half of II century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.20.0, W.26.3, Th.5.0.

Additional description

Broken off on the left. The front is polished, the back is roughly picked. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

 

Find circumstances

Unknown. In 1941, it was in the exhibition of the Historical-Archaeological Museum of the Kharikiv University, marked with a label "Chersonesos." It was probably sent, along with other monuments, to Kharkiv from Sevastopol in 1914. 

Modern location

Kharkiv. 

Institution and inventory

Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography of Slobidska Ukraine, 2030/1968. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with broken crossbar, oval theta with detached crossbar, cursive mu, sigma with horizontal top and bottom bars; serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.0

Text

Category

Building inscription. 

Date

Late 1st - 1st half of II century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Semenov-Zuser1947, 35; Semenov-Zuser1947a, 237; НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) 129 (= Bull.ép. 1974, 380). 

Edition

[ἀγ]αθῆι τύχηι
[---]νης Διογένους
[ἀγορα]νομήσας ἐκ τῶν
[ἰδίων τ]ὴν ὀψόπολιν
5[ἐπιμελη?]τεύοντος Διο-
[--- Φ]ιλαδέλφου

Diplomatic

[..]ΑΘΗΙΤΥΧΗΙ
[---]ΝΗΣΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΣ
[.....]ΝΟΜΗΣΑΣΕΚΤΩΝ
[......]ΗΝΟΨΟΠΟΛΙΝ
5[.......]ΤΕΥΟΝΤΟΣΔΙΟ
[---.]ΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΟΥ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      		<lb n="1"/><supplied reason="lost">ἀγ</supplied>αθῆι τύχηι
      		<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="F">νης</seg> 
            Διογένους
      		<lb n="3"/><supplied reason="lost">ἀγορα</supplied>νομήσας ἐκ τῶν
      		<lb n="4"/><supplied reason="lost">ἰδίων</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">τ</supplied>ὴν ὀψόπολιν
      		<lb n="5"/><supplied reason="lost" cert="low">ἐπιμελη</supplied>τεύοντος <seg part="I">Διο</seg>
      		<lb n="6" break="no"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> 
            <supplied reason="lost">Φ</supplied>ιλαδέλφου
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Bull.ép. 1950, 150; Vinogradov1975, 173; Bekker-Nielsen2007 (= SEG 57, 700; Bull.ép. 2008, 42). 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: [Θεαγέ]νης ed. pr.
4: ὀψόπολιν = ὀψόπωλιν
5: [ἐπιμελη?]τεύοντος scripsi; [ἱερα]τεύοντος ed. pr.; [ἐπόει ἱερα]τεύοντος vel [νέαν ἱερα]τεύοντοςSolomonik

Translation

[With go]od fortune. [- - -], (son of) Diogenes, having served as agoranomos, (built), from [personal funds], a fishmarket. Overseer of works was Dio[- - -], (son of) Philadelphos.

 

Images

 

(cc)© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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