III 155. Chersonesos.Honorific inscription, 14 - 9/8 B.C.E.
Monument
Type
Base.
Material
Marble.
Dimensions (cm)
H.12.0, W.81.0, Th.21.5.
Additional description
Part of a base, first reused as another base, and then as a threshold for a Medieval sepulchre. The top is carved out; on the bottom, there are depressions for "the left foot of a statue and for either a spear butt, or some other support" (Latyshev 1899). On the front: a relief crown and six-line inscription cut following ruled lines.
Place of Origin
Chersonesos.
Find place
Sevastopol (Chersonesos).
Find context
Northeast sector of the citadel, in a tomb below the chapel discovered in 1891.
Find circumstances
Random find in 1898, during the excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich
Modern location
Unknown.
Institution and inventory
Unknown, 3611.
Autopsy
Non vidi. The monument is considered lost.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Mu with slightly slanting outer hastae, pi with even verticals and extended horizontal, four-bar sigma with parallel top and bottom bars; absence of decorative elements at the ends of letterstrokes.
Letterheights (cm)
1.0
Text
Category
Honorific inscription.
Date
14 - 9/8 B.C.E.
Dating criteria
Prosopography.
Editions
Latyshev 1899, 9, № 6 (= IOSPE IV 91); IOSPE I2 419; Vinogradov 1992, 135 (= SEG 42 696; cf. Vinogradov 1997, 566).
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/>ἐπὶ τᾶς συμμα
<lb n="2" break="no"/>χίας γενηθέν
<lb n="3"/>τι τᾶς πρὸς β<supplied reason="lost">α</supplied>
<lb n="4" break="no"/>σιλέα Πολέμω
<lb n="5" break="no"/>να καὶ ἁγεμό
<lb n="6" break="no"/><supplied reason="lost">νεύσαντι</supplied>.
</ab>
</div>
Commentaries
Sokolov 1902; Wilhelm 1909, 210, № 184; Gaydukevich 1949, 322; Kadeev 1979, 59 (cf. Kadeev 1981, 17); Zubar 1987, 127; Saprykin 1993, 34 (cf. Saprykin 2002, 126); Vinogradov 1994, 163, approx. 67; Zubar 1994, 18 (cf. Canali de Rossi 1997, 31); Zubar 2004, 44; Solomonik 1990, 26, № 15.
Apparatus criticus
5-6:
δι’ ἁγεμο|[νίαν εὐτυχῆ (?)]Latyshev,IOSPE;
[κ]αὶ ἁγεμό|ν[ι το]ῦ [στόλου (?)]Wilhelm;
καὶ
ἁγεμό|να
Μυσίας̣ (однако буквы, отмеченные точками
не поддаются идентификации на эстампаже).Vinogradov1992
6:
supplevi
Translation
© 2017 Igor
Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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