III 28. Chersonesos.Decree honouring naukleros, 1st half of II century C.E.
Monument
Type
Panel.
Material
Marble.
Dimensions (cm)
H.25.0, W.15.5, Th.9.0.
Additional description
Broken off on all sides. The front is polished.
Place of Origin
Chersonesos.
Find place
Sevastopol (Chersonesos).
Find context
Northeast sector of the citadel: area of the Eastern Basilica (№ 36) and Uvarov Basilica.
Find circumstances
Found in 1877-1878, excavations of the Odessa Society for History and Antiquities.
Modern location
Sevastopol.
Institution and inventory
National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 3346.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Small round omicron, large round omega; large serifs.
Letterheights (cm)
1.5
Text
Category
Decree.
Date
1st half of II century C.E.
Dating criteria
Palaeography.
Editions
Yurgevich1879, 6, № 2; IOSPE I 187; IOSPE I2 365, l. 12-21.
[--- κα]λ̣ο̣[κἀγαθίαν? ---]
[--- αὐ]τ̣ὸν ἀμ̣[είψασθαι ἐψαφισάμεθα· δι’ ἃ δεδόχθαι τᾷ]
[βουλ]ᾶι καὶ τῷ [δάμωι· ἐπαινέσαι μὲν ἐπὶ τούτοις ---]
[--- Ἡ]ρ̣άκου ναύκ[λαρον ---], [δόμεν δ̣ὲ αὐτῶι προξενίας]
5[πολιτ]ε̣ίαν, ἔσπλου[ν τε καὶ ἔκπλουν ἐν εἰράνᾳ καὶ πολέμῳ]
[ἀσυλεὶ ἀ]σπονδεὶ αὐ[τῶι καὶ ἐκγόνοις καὶ χράμασιν αὐτοῦ],
[μ̣ε̣τ̣ο̣χ̣ά̣ν̣ τ̣ε̣ πά]ν̣των τῶν [ἐν τᾶι πόλει, ὧν καὶ τοῖς ἀστοῖς]
[μέτεστιν· τὸ δὲ ψά]φ̣ιγμα τοῦ[το ἀναγραφᾶμεν λευκολίθου]
[στάλαι καὶ θέμεν ἐν τῷ] ἐπισαμ[οτάτῳ τᾶς ἀκροπόλιος τόπῳ·]
10[τᾶυτ’ ἔδοξε βουλᾶι δά]μ̣ωι, βασ[ιλευούσας Παρθένου ---]
[---]Σ. [---]
[---]
[---..]..[........---]
[---..].ΟΝΑ.[..................................]
[....]ΑΙΚΑΙΤΩ[............................---]
[---.].ΑΚΟΥΝΑΥΚ[.....---.....................]
5[.....].ΙΑΝΕΣΠΛΟΥ[..............................]
[.......]ΣΠΟΝΔΕΙΑΥ[..............................]
[...........].ΤΩΝΤΩΝ[..........................]
[...............].ΙΓΜΑΤΟΥ[.......................]
[..................]ΕΠΙΣΑΜ[.......................]
10[..................].ΩΙΒΑΣ[.................---]
[---]Σ·[---]
[---]
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</div>Commentaries
Latyshev1907a, 50.
Apparatus criticus
1:
scripsi
2:
[- - -]οναι[- - -]IOSPE;
[- - - αὐ]τ̣ὸν ἀμ̣[είψασθαι ἐψαφισάμεθα] restitui
4:
[Ἡρ]άκουIOSPE;
после ναύκ[λαρον], ethnicon?
8:
[ψά]φι(σ)μαIOSPE
Translation
[- - - nobi]li[ty - - - we decided to repay] him; [for which reasons, the Counc]il and the [People shall deem it good, first of all, to praise, on account of these, [---, (son of) He]rakos, a nau[kleros , and to grant him citizen]ship on the grounds of proxeny,] the right of sail[ing in and out of the harbour in peace time and in war time, without a threat of confiscation and without a formal [treaty, for him, [his descendants and his goods, sharing in eve]rything [in the city that the citizens share; to inscribe this de]cision on a stele of white stone and set it up in the most] prom[inent place of the acropolis. This was decided by the Council and the Peop]le, in the reign [of Parthenos...] - - -.
Commentary
IOSPE I 187 was published as a fragment of № ipe365; IOSPE I2 365, l. 12-21 was published as the bottom fragment of № ipe365.
2: start of the line - bottom of a vertical; at the end - M or N.
4: start of the line - bottom of a vertical before A.
Images
© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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