III 37. Chersonesos. Decree, II century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 14.5, W. 19.5, Th. 4.0.

Additional description

Broken off on all sides. The front is polished. Six-line inscription cut following ruled lines. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Fragment 1 (right): northeast sector (near the Eastern and Uvarov (№ 23) Basilicae. Fragment 2 (left): east of Main street. 

Find circumstances

Fragment 1 (right) probably found in 1879-1880, excavations of the Odessa Society for History and Antiquities. Fragment 2 (left) found in 1888, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (НА НЗХТ, д. 1, № 2; д. 17, л. 2, № 2). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 35118. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Delta and lambda with strongly projecting right diagonal; horseshoe omega; light serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.5

Text

Category

Decree. 

Date

II century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Fr. 1. Yurgevich 1881a, 221, № 4; IOSPE I 192. Fr. 2. Latyshev 1891b, 27, № 33; IOSPE IV 75; IOSPE I2 382. 

Edition

[---]
[--- ἔσπλουν τε]
[καὶ ἔκπλ]ουν ἐ̣[ν εἰράνᾳ καὶ ἐν πολέμῳ ἀσυλεὶ καὶ]
[ἀσπονδ]εὶ αὐτ̣[ῷ τε κ]αὶ ἐκ [γόνοις αὐτοῦ καὶ χράμασι],
[μετοχάν τ]ε πάν[τ]ων τῶν ἐν̣ [τᾷ πόλει ὧν καὶ Χερσονασεί-]
5[ταις μέτ]εστι· τὸ δὲ ψάφισμ[α τοῦτο ἀναγραφᾶμεν λευκο-]
[λίθου σ]τάλᾳ καὶ θέμεν ἐ[ν τῷ ἐπισαμοτάτῳ τᾶς ἀκροπό-]
[λιος τό]πῳ· ταῦτ’ ἔδοξε [---]
[---]

Diplomatic

[---]
[---.........]
[.......]ΟΥΝ.[...........................]
[......]ΕΙΑΥ.[....]ΑΙΕΚ[.....................]
[........]ΕΠΑΝ[.]ΩΝΤΩΝΕ.[......................-]
5[.......]ΕΣΤΙΤΟΔΕΨΑΦΙΣΜ[......................-]
[......]ΤΑΛΑΚΑΙΘΕΜΕΝΕ[.......................-]
[......]ΠΩΤΑΥΤΕΔΟΞΕ[---]
[---]

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Apparatus criticus

1: ἐ̣[ν scripsi; [ἐν] IOSPE

Translation

[- - - (and grant him) ... the right of sailing in and sai]ling out of the harbour in peace time and in war time, without a threat of confiscation and without a formal treaty,] for him, his des[cendants and his goods, as well as a share in] all the things shared by the Chersonesites; to inscribe] this decision on a] stele pof white stone] and set it up [in the most prominent place of the acropolis.] This was decided [- - -].

 

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