III 36. Chersonesos. Decree, II century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 17.0, W. 21.5, Th. 8.0.

Additional description

Broken off on all sides. Remains of six lines of text. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Northeast sector of Chersonesos, near the battery of Canet, in the Byzantine layer. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1908, excavations of R.Ch. Loeper (НА НЗХТ, д. 101, л. 19, № 2798; д. 66, л. 49, 18/09/08, № 2798; д. 67, л. 65). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 35084. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Some letters slightly lean to the left; slightly curving hastae of alpha, lambda, mu, nu, pi; large serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.2

Text

Category

Decree. 

Date

II century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Loeper 1912, 59, № 7; IOSPE I2 378. 

Edition

[---]
[--- ἐπαινέσαι ---]
[..]ε̣ί̣δου [το]ῦ̣ Ἡρακλείδου̣ [--- δόμεν δὲ αὐ-]
[τ]ῷ προξενίας πολειτε[ίαν ἔσπλουν τε καὶ ἔκπλουν]
[ἐν ε]ἰράναι καὶ πολέμωι ἀσ[υλεὶ ἀσπονδεὶ αὐτῶι τε]
5[καὶ] χράμασιν αὐτοῦ μετ[οχάν τε πάντων τῶν ἐν τᾷ πό-]
[λει] ὧν̣ καὶ Χερσ̣[ονασείταις μέτεστι ---]
[---]..[---]
[---]

Diplomatic

[---]
[---.........---]
[··]..ΔΟΥ [..]. ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΟ.[---.........-]
[.]ΩΠΡΟΞΕΝΙΑΣΠΟΛΕΙΤΕ[......................]
[...]ΙΡΑΝΑΙΚΑΙΠΟΛΕΜΩΙΑΣ[...................]
5[...]ΧΡΑΜΑΣΙΝΑΥΤΟΥΜΕΤ[.....................-]
[...]Ω.ΚΑΙΧΕΡ.[.................---]
[---]··[---]
[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

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   <ab>			
    <lb n="0"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
      	<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> <supplied reason="lost">ἐπαινέσαι</supplied> 
      <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      	<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" quantity="2" unit="character"/><seg part="F"><unclear>εί</unclear>δου</seg> 
      		   <supplied reason="lost">το</supplied><unclear>ῦ</unclear> 
      	     Ἡρακλείδο<unclear>υ</unclear> 
         <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> <supplied reason="lost">δόμεν</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">δὲ</supplied>
         <supplied reason="lost">αὐ</supplied>
      	<lb n="3" break="no"/><supplied reason="lost">τ</supplied>ῷ προξενίας πολειτε<supplied reason="lost">ίαν</supplied> 
      <supplied reason="lost">ἔσπλουν</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">τε</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">καὶ</supplied> 
      <supplied reason="lost">ἔκπλουν</supplied>
      	<lb n="4"/><supplied reason="lost">ἐν</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">ε</supplied>ἰράναι καὶ πολέμωι 
         ἀσ<supplied reason="lost">υλεὶ</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">ἀσπονδεὶ</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">αὐτῶι</supplied> 
         <supplied reason="lost">τε</supplied>
      	<lb n="5"/><supplied reason="lost">καὶ</supplied> χράμασιν αὐτοῦ μετ<supplied reason="lost">οχάν</supplied> 
         <supplied reason="lost">τε</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">πάντων</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">τῶν</supplied> 
         <supplied reason="lost">ἐν</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">τᾷ</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">πό</supplied>
      	<lb n="6" break="no"/><supplied reason="lost">λει</supplied> ὧ<unclear>ν</unclear> καὶ 
         Χερ<unclear>σ</unclear><supplied reason="lost">ονασείταις</supplied> 
         <supplied reason="lost">μέτεστι</supplied> <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      	<lb n="7"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><gap reason="illegible" quantity="2" unit="character"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      	<lb n="7a"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
   </ab>
   </div> 
Commentaries

Tyumenev 1950, 18. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Suppl. ; ἐπαινέσαι τὸν δεῖνα Ἡρα]|[κλ]ε̣ί̣δου, vel sim. -ειδης IOSPE
5: fin.: τᾷ scripsi; τᾶι IOSPE
7: vestigia

Translation

[- - - to praise ---, son of ---] son of Herakleidas, [and grant him citizenship on the grounds of proxeny, [the right of sailing in and out of the harbour] in peace time and in war time, without a threat of con[fiscation and without a formal treaty, for him] and his goods, as well as a sha[re in all the things shared by the Chersonesites - - -].

 

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