III 4. Chersonesos.Proxeny decree honouring Timagoras, 2nd half of III century B.C.Е.
Monument
Type
Stele.
Material
Marble.
Dimensions (cm)
H.12.0, W.23.0, Th.4.0.
Additional description
Stele with triangular pediment, broken off on the right; left side damaged. The bottom was cut off in secondary use.
Place of Origin
Chersonesos.
Find place
Sevastopol (Chersonesos).
Find context
Near Chersonesos, stone wall, masonry.
Find circumstances
Random find in 1897 (archive of National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos: НЗХТ, д. 26, л. 4).
Modern location
Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Institution and inventory
The State Hermitage Museum, X.1897.83.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Slightly curved letterstrokes of alpha, delta, lambda, mu and sigma; alpha with broken crossbar, theta with attached crossbar, mu with slightly splayed outer hastae, sigma with slightly splayed bars.
Letterheights (cm)
0.7
Text
Category
Decree.
Date
2nd half of III century B.C.Е.
Dating criteria
Palaeography.
Editions
Latyshev1899, 2, № 1 (= IOSPE IV 64); IOSPE I2 340.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/>προξενία Τιμαγόρα
Ῥο<unclear>δ</unclear><supplied reason="lost">ίου</supplied>
<lb n="2"/><supplied reason="lost">βου</supplied><unclear>λ</unclear>ὰ καὶ δᾶμος ἔδωκε·
Θεότιμο<supplied reason="lost">ς</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
<lb n="3"/><gap reason="lost" quantity="2" unit="character"/><seg part="F">γονος</seg>
Πρόνου
τοῦ Αὐτέα εἶπαν·
<supplied reason="lost">δόμεν</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost">Τιμαγό</supplied>
<lb n="4" break="no"/><supplied reason="lost">ραι</supplied> <unclear>Ν</unclear>ικαγόρα
Ῥοδίωι προξενίαν καὶ
πο<supplied reason="lost">λιτείαν</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost">αὐ</supplied>
<lb n="5" break="no"/><supplied reason="lost">τῶι</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">κ</supplied>αὶ γένει καὶ εἴσπλουν
καὶ ἔκπλ<unclear>ο</unclear><supplied reason="lost">υν</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">αὐτοῖς</supplied>
<lb n="6"/><supplied reason="lost">καὶ</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">χράμ</supplied><unclear>α</unclear>σι τοῖς
<unclear>α</unclear>ὐτ<supplied reason="lost">ῶ</supplied><unclear>ν</unclear> καὶ
πο<supplied reason="lost">λ</supplied>έμου
<unclear>κα</unclear><supplied reason="lost">ὶ</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">εἰράνας</supplied>
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</ab>
</div>
Apparatus criticus
2-3:
[Ἀν|τί]γονοςLatyshev
7:
fortasse [ἀσυλεὶ καὶ ἀσπονδεί ---]Latyshev
Translation
Proxeny of Timagoras of Rhodes.
The Council and People decided.
Theotimos (son of) - - -, [- - -]gonos, (son of) Auteas, proposed: to grant Timagoras, son of Nikagoras, the Rhodian, proxeny and citizenship, to him and his descendants, as well as the right of sailing in and out of the harbour, [for them and their goo]ds in war time and peace time [---].
© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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