III 47. Chersonesos.Decree, II century C.E.
Monument
Type
Panel.
Material
Marble.
Dimensions (cm)
H.18.0, W.12.0, Th.6.5.
Additional description
Broken off on all sides. Remains of five lines of text.
Place of Origin
Chersonesos.
Find place
Sevastopol (Chersonesos).
Find context
Northeast sector of the citadel of Chersonesos, near the Eastern Basilica.
Find circumstances
Found in 1908, excavations of R.Ch. Loeper (НА НЗХТ, д. 64, л.12; д. 67, л. 65; д. 101, л. 38, № 4070).
Modern location
Sevastopol.
Institution and inventory
National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 34872.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Oval theta with detached crossbar, four-bar sigma with parallel top and bottom bars, word divisions; ligatures, light serifs.
Letterheights (cm)
1.8
Text
Category
Decree.
Date
II century C.E.
Dating criteria
Palaeography, prosopography.
Editions
Loeper1912, 60, № 8; IOSPE I2 374.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="0"/><gap reason="lost" unit="line" extent="unknown"/>
<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" unit="character" extent="unknown"/>
<supplied reason="lost">νό</supplied>μον
π<supplied reason="lost">ό</supplied>λε<supplied reason="lost">ος</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" unit="character" extent="unknown"/>
<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" unit="character" extent="unknown"/>
<unclear>π</unclear>λαθύνοντα τὰ
<w part="I">κ</w><gap reason="lost" unit="character" extent="unknown"/>
<lb n="3"/><gap reason="lost" unit="character" extent="unknown"/>
<supplied reason="lost">τι</supplied><unclear>μ</unclear>ᾶσθ’
ἀναλόγ<supplied reason="lost">ως</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost">ἐψαφισάμεθα</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost">δι’</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost">ἅ</supplied>
<lb n="4"/><supplied reason="lost">δεδόχθαι</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost">τ</supplied>ᾷ βουλᾷ καὶ
τ<supplied reason="lost">ῷ</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">δάμῳ</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost">ἐπαινέσαι</supplied>
<lb n="5"/><supplied reason="lost">μὲν</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">ἐπὶ</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost">τούτοι</supplied>ς
<expan><abbr>Τ</abbr><ex>ίτον</ex></expan>
Φλ<supplied reason="lost">αουίον</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" unit="character" extent="unknown"/>
<lb n="5a"/><gap reason="lost" unit="line" extent="unknown"/>
</ab>
</div>
Commentaries
Latyshev1912, 135.
Apparatus criticus
1-2:
legit
2:
ΝΤ in ligatura
Translation
[- - - l]aw of the polis - - - [we decided to h]onour in a fitt[ing manner; for which reasons, the C]ouncil and th[e People shall deem it good to praise for the]se T(itus) Fl(avius) [- - -]
© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
You may download this inscription in EpiDoc XML. (This file should validate to theEpiDoc schema.)