III 158. Chersonesos. Honorific inscription, I century C.E.

Monument

Type

Base. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 36.0, W. 82.0, Th. 70.0.

Additional description

Split in half. Top left segment was cut off and reused in an Early Byzantine building. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

South sector of Chersonesos. Reused, along with another statue base, as supports for swivelling double doors of the sourwestern city gates, in the Curtain Wall 9 of the fortification walls. 

Find circumstances

Random find in 1900 (НА НЗХТ, д. 9, л. 28, № 197а,б; д. 29, л. 6, № 197; cf. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich 1902, 33, № 4,5). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 8181. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. The stone is not available for autopsy. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Slightly elongated letters (line 1), mu with slanting outer hastae, nu with even verticals; slight flaring of the ends of hastae. 

Letterheights (cm)

0.7–1.3

Text

Category

Honorific inscription. 

Date

I century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Latyshev 1902, 62, № 1; IOSPE I2 424. 

Edition

[---].[---]
[---].ΤΟΝ καλῶς
[πολιτευσάμενον].
1
[ἱερατ]εύσ[αν]-
5[τα]
[ὁ δᾶ]μος
κα[ὶ ἰ]κόνι
χαλκᾷ
2
γυμνασ[ι-]
10α[ρ]χήσαν-
τα·
3
[---]
4
δαμι-
ορ[γ]ή-
15σ[αντ]α
5
προδι-
κήσαν-
τα

Diplomatic

[---]·[---]
[---]·ΤΟΝΚΑΛΩΣ
[..............]
1
[.....]ΕΥΣ[..]
5[..]
[...]ΜΟΣ
ΚΑ[..]ΚΟΝΙ
ΧΑΛΚΑ
2
ΓΥΜΝΑΣ[.-]
10Α[.]ΧΗΣΑΝ
ΤΑ
3
[---]
4
ΔΑΜΙ
ΟΡ[.]Η
15Σ[...]Α
5
ΠΡΟΔΙ
ΚΗΣΑΝ
ΤΑ

EpiDoc (XML)

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      <ab>
       <lb n="4"/><w part="I"><supplied reason="lost">ἱερατ</supplied>εύσ<supplied reason="lost">αν</supplied></w>
       <lb n="5" break="no"/><w part="F"><supplied reason="lost">τα</supplied></w>
       <lb n="6"/><supplied reason="lost">ὁ</supplied> 
         <supplied reason="lost">δᾶ</supplied>μος
       <lb n="7"/>κα<supplied reason="lost">ὶ</supplied> 
         <supplied reason="lost">ἰ</supplied>κόνι
       <lb n="8"/>χαλκᾷ
      </ab>
     </div>
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      <ab>
      <lb n="9"/>γυμνασ<supplied reason="lost">ι</supplied>
      <lb n="10" break="no"/>α<supplied reason="lost">ρ</supplied>χήσαν
      <lb n="11" break="no"/>τα· 
      </ab>
     </div>
<div type="textpart" subtype="cor" n="3">
      <ab>
       <lb n="12"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
     </ab>
     </div>
<div type="textpart" subtype="cor" n="4">
      <ab>
       <lb n="13"/>δαμι
       <lb n="14" break="no"/>ορ<supplied reason="lost">γ</supplied>ή
       <lb n="15" break="no"/>σ<supplied reason="lost">αντ</supplied>α
      </ab>
     </div>
<div type="textpart" subtype="cor" n="5">
      <ab>
       <lb n="16"/>προδι
       <lb n="17" break="no"/>κήσαν
       <lb n="18" break="no"/>τα
      </ab>
     </div>
Commentaries

Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich 1902, 33, № 4, 5; Pichikyan 1984, 198, 226; Vinogradov 1992, 135 (= Vinogradov 1997, 569); Treister 1999, 142, № 9 (30). 

 
Apparatus criticus

2: [- - - ο]ς τὸν καλῶς IOSPE I2
7: κ[αὶ] IOSPE I2
8: scripsi (в соответствии с фотографией), [χαλκέαι] IOSPE I2

Translation

 

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