III 596. Neapolis Scythica.Dedication to Achilles, middle to 2nd half of II century B.C.Е.
Monument
Type
Base
Material
Limestone.
Dimensions (cm)
H.24.0, W.40.0, Th.36.0.
Additional description
Broken off on all sides except the top. On the top - a depression for a statue's foot, 15cm long. The front is well worked. Remains of four lines of text.
Place of Origin
Neapolis Scythica.
Find place
Simferopol (Kermenchik/Neapolis Scythica?).
Find context
South sector of the citadel.
Find circumstances
Found in 1853, excavations of A.S. Uvarov
Modern location
Moscow, Russia.
Institution and inventory
State Historical Museum, 78607.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Alpha with broken crossbar, pi with short vertical and extended horizontal, sigma with parallel upper and lower bars; serifs.
Letterheights (cm)
2.0
Text
Category
Dedicatory inscription.
Date
Middle to 2nd half of II century B.C.Е.
Dating criteria
Palaeography.
Editions
Uvarov1855 134, № 50; IOSPE I 244; IOSPE I2 672; Solomonik1962, 39; Zaitsev2003, 50, №4; Hupe2003 (= SEG 55, 849bis).
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/>Ἀχιλλεῖ νήσου <supplied reason="lost">μεδέοντι</supplied>
<lb n="2"/>Ποσίδεος
Ποσι<supplied reason="lost">δέου</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost">τοὺς</supplied>
<lb n="3"/>Σαταρχαίους <supplied reason="lost">νικήσας</supplied>
<lb n="4"/>πειρατεύσαντ<supplied reason="lost">ας</supplied> <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
</ab>
</div>
Commentaries
Becker1856, 44; Minns1913, 463; Latyshev1921, 21; Tolstoy1918, 41; Rostovtsev1918, 190; SEG 3 (1927) 606 (Wilhelm); Bull.ép. 1965, 272; Brashinsky1973, 129; Κοντορίνη1981, 226 слл; Vinogradov1989, 244, approx. 63; Vinogradov1997, 68; Treister1999, 138, № 4 (20).
Apparatus criticus
1:
[Λεύκης μεδέοντι] Wilhelm
2:
Ποσι[δέου Ὀλβιοπολίτας] Wilhelm
3-4:
Σαταρχαίους [νικήσας] | πειρατεύσαντ[ας ἀνέθηκεν
(?)]IOSPE;
Σαταρχαίους [νικήσας τοὺς] | πειρατεύσαντ[ας τὴν
νῆσον]Tolstoy;
Σαταρχαίους [τοὺς τὴν νῆσον Λεύκην vel τοὺς τὴν
Λεύκην] | πειρατεύσαντ[ας νικήσας ἀνέθηκεν]
Wilhelm;
Σαταρχαίους [νικήσας] | πειρατεύσαντ[ας τὴν ἀκτήν
(?)]Solomonik;
Σαταρχαίους τ[οὺς τὴν νῆσον] |
πειρατεύσαντ[ας νικήσας]Vinogradov1988
Translation
Posideos, (son of) Posideos, (dedicated) to Achilles, [ruler of] the island, having defeated the Satarchae who engaged in piracy.
© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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