III 593. Neapolis Scythica.Statue description, mid - 2nd half of II century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Base. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.16.0, W.107.0, Th.102.0.

Additional description

The surface is treated summarily. One of the corners is broken away. 

Place of Origin

Neapolis Scythica. 

Find place

Simferopol (Kermenchik/Neapolis Scythica?). 

Find context

South area of the citadel, quarry works in Kermenchik. (In a rock-cut pit that served as an undergound part of the monumental tomb of Argotos). 

Find circumstances

Random find in 1827, bought by A.I. Sultan-Krym-Girey and passed on to I.P. Blaramberg. 

Modern location

Odessa, Ukraine. 

Institution and inventory

Odessa Archaeological Museum, 50715. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with broken crossbar; serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.0

Text

Category

Statue description. 

Date

Mid - 2nd half of II century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography, historical context, prosopography. 

Editions

Blaramberg1827 (= Blaramberg1831); Blaramberg1889, 60; 2, 2013; IOSPE I 241; IOSPE I2 668; Zaitsev2003, 50, №3. 

Edition

βασιλεὺς Σ̣κ̣ί̣λουρος βασ̣[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---].ΙΣ[---]

Diplomatic

ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ...ΛΟΥΡΟΣΒΑ.[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---]·ΙΣ[---]

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Commentaries

Minns1913, 119; Shultz1946, 44; Solomonik1962, 33-34; Harmatta1992, 8-9 (= SEG 42, 681); Treister1999, 136 № 1(17). 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: βασιλεὺς Σκίλουρος βασ[ιλεὺς μεγά]λοςBlaramberg1827; βασιλεὺς Σκίλουρος βασ[ιλέων μέγας (?)]; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣΣΚΙΛΟΥΡΟΣΒΑΣ[----]Ε[----]Δ[--]Σ (cf. IOSPE I2 p. 64: «v. 1 extr. nihil nisi patris Sciluri nomen perisse puto: Βασιλεὺς Σκίλουρος βασ[ιλέως ......ο]ς»)IOSPE; βασιλεὺς Σκίλουρος βασ[ιλεὺς βασιλέων]Harmatta; fin:βασ[ιλεύων ---]
2: τὸ λʹ ἑαυτοῦ βασιλείας [---]Blaramberg1827; τὸ λʹ ἑαυτοῦ βασιλείας [ἔτος ---]; [-----]ΛΕΑΥ[-----]ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣ[.]Α[----]Ν[---]Ρ[-----]IOSPE (cf. IOSPE I2 p. 64: «v. 2 medio videtur βασίλισ[σ]α fuisse scriptum; de βασιλείας voce certe non est cogitandum»)

Translation

King Skilouros - - -

 

Images

 

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