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. 

Edition

[---]
[--- νό]μον π[ό]λε[ος ---]
[---] π̣λαθύνοντα τὰ κ[---]
[--- τι]μ̣ᾶσθ’ ἀναλόγ[ως ἐψαφισάμεθα δι’ ἅ]
[δεδόχθαι τ]ᾷ βουλᾷ καὶ τ[ῷ δάμῳ ἐπαινέσαι]
5[μὲν ἐπὶ τούτοι]ς Τ(ίτον) Φλ[αουίον ---]
[---]

Diplomatic

[---]
[---..]ΜΟΝΠ[.]ΛΕ[..---]
[---].ΛΑΘΥΝΟΝΤΑΤΑΚ[---]
[---..].ΑΣΘΑΝΑΛΟΓ[.................]
[.........]ΑΒΟΥΛΑΚΑΙΤ[..............]
5[............]ΣΤΦΛ[......---]
[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

<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) [- - -]

 

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