III 166. Chersonesos.Statue identification with honours for Sextus Vettulenus Cerialis, 73-78 C.E.
Monument
Type
Base.
Material
Marble.
Dimensions (cm)
H.27.0, W.63.0, Th.59.0.
Place of Origin
Chersonesos.
Find place
Sevastopol (Chersonesos).
Find context
Unknown.
Find circumstances
Found in 1853 during the archaeological explorations of A.S. Uvarov.
Modern location
Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Institution and inventory
The State Hermitage Museum, Х.1853.35.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Slightly elongated letterstrokes, alpha with broken crossbar formed by two crisscrossing hastae, slight flaring of the ends of letterstrokes.
Letterheights (cm)
3.5
Text
Category
Honorific inscription.
Date
73-78 C.E.
Dating criteria
Historical context, prosopography.
Editions
Stefani1860, 253, № 9; IOSPE I 197 (= IGR I 863); IOSPE I2 421.
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<ab>
<lb n="1"/><supplied reason="lost">Σ</supplied><unclear>έ</unclear>ξ<supplied reason="lost">τον</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost">Οὐεττουληνὸν</supplied>
<lb n="2"/>Κεριᾶλιν
Αὐτοκράτορος Οὐ<supplied reason="lost">εσ</supplied>
<lb n="3" break="no"/>πασιανοῦ Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ
<lb n="4"/>πρεσβευτὴν καὶ ἀντιστράτηγον
<lb n="5"/>ὁ δᾶμος
</ab>
</div>
Commentaries
Waddington1872, 160-162; Minns1913, 523; Stein1940, 33; McCrum, Woodhead1961, 280; Kadeev1981, 23; Solomonik1990, 29, № 20; Zubar1994, 30; Kadeev1996, 12; Treister1999, 140, № 5 (26).
Apparatus criticus
1: om.Stefani; in.: ΣΕΞ[ΤΟΝ]Waddington
Translation
© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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