III 594. Neapolis Scythica.Dedication to Zeus Atabyrios, middle - 2nd half of II century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Base. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.40.0, W.60.0, Th.48.0.

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, 50604. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with straight crossbar, pi with short right vertical; serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.5-1.8

Text

Category

Dedicatory inscription. 

Date

Middle - 2nd half of II century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography, archaeological context. 

Editions

Blaramberg1827 (= Blaramberg1831, 60); , 2, 2103b; IOSPE I 242; IOSPE I2 670; Solomonik1962, 36; Treister1999, 50, № 4. 

Edition

Διὶ Ἀταβυρίωι Ποσίδεος Ποσιδέου
χαριστήριον.

Diplomatic

ΔΙΙΑΤΑΒΥΡΙΩΙΠΟΣΙΔΕΟΣΠΟΣΙΔΕΟΥ
ΧΑΡΙΣΤΗΡΙΟΝ

EpiDoc (XML)

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Commentaries

Minns1913, 463; Bull.ép. 1965, 272; Κοντορίνη1981; Vinogradov1997, 68; Treister1999, 136, № 2(18); Hupe2003, 293. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Legit Blaramberg 1831.

Translation

Posideos, (son of) Posideos, (dedicated) to Zeus Atabyrios, a thanks offering.

 

Images

 

(cc)© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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