III 132. Chersonesos. Building inscription of agoranomos, 180 C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 14.0, W. 23.0, Th. 6.0.

Additional description

Broken off on all sides except the left, split in half. Three-line inscription cut following ruled lines. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

North sector of the citadel, not far from the Basilica of 1935, Enclosure № 4. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1949, excavations of G.D. Belov (НА НЗХТ, д. 622, л. 15; ср. Белов 1955, 272). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 21/35933. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Slightly elongated letters, oval omicron the size of other letters, four-bar sigma with parallel top and bottom bars; word divisions; prominent serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.5

Text

Category

Building inscription. 

Date

180 C.E. 

Dating criteria

Explicit date. 

Editions

НЭПХ I (Solomonik 1964) 26. 

Edition

[---]
ἀγοραν̣[όμος ὢν ---ἐν τῷ]
σε’ ἔτει ἀ[γορανόμιον? ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων κατεσκεύασε ---]
[...]..Υ̣ [---]
[---]

Diplomatic

[---]
ΑΓΟΡΑ.[......---....]
ΣΕΕΤΕΙΑ[...............................---]
[···]··.[---]
[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      		<lb n="0"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
      		<lb n="1"/>ἀγορα<unclear>ν</unclear><supplied reason="lost">όμος</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">ὢν</supplied> 
      <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><supplied reason="lost">ἐν</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">τῷ</supplied>
      		<lb n="2"/>σε’ ἔτει ἀ<supplied reason="lost" cert="low">γορανόμιον</supplied> 
      <supplied reason="lost">ἐκ</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">τῶν</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">ἰδίων</supplied> 
      <supplied reason="lost">κατεσκεύασε</supplied> <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="3"/><gap reason="lost" quantity="3" unit="character"/><gap reason="illegible" quantity="2" unit="character"/><orig><unclear>Υ</unclear></orig>
      <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="3a"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Nadel 1976, 199 (= SEG 26, 797); Solomonik 1990, 68, № 62; Ivanchyk 2012, 127. 

 
Apparatus criticus

0: [ὁ δεῖνα τοῦ δεῖνος] Solomonik 1964
0-1: [τὸν] | ἀγοραν̣[ομήσαντα ?] vel [τὸν] | ἀγοραν̣[όμιον ? οἰκοδομήσαντα] Nadel
1-2: ἀγοραν̣[ομήσας ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ἐν τῷ] | σε’ ἔτει ἀ[γορανόμιον ? κατεσκεύασε]; не исключаю [ἐπεσκεύασε] vel sim. Solomonik 1964
2: по обеим сторонам слова ἔτει точки-разделители.
3: в начале стк. верх вертикальной гасты, затем полукружие Ο или Θ; [- - -]ι̣ο̣υ̣[- - -] Solomonik 1964

Translation

- - - in the year 205, serving as agoran[omos, built/rebuilt? from personal funds the] a[goranomion?]

 

Commentary

Year 205 of the Chersonessian era corresponds to 180 C.E.

 

Images

 

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