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). 

Edition

Ἀχιλλεῖ νήσου [μεδέοντι]
Ποσίδεος Ποσι[δέου τοὺς]
Σαταρχαίους [νικήσας]
πειρατεύσαντ[ας ---]

Diplomatic

ΑΧΙΛΛΕΙΝΗΣΟΥ[........]
ΠΟΣΙΔΕΟΣ ΠΟΣΙ[........]
ΣΑΤΑΡΧΑΙΟΥΣ[.......]
ΠΕΙΡΑΤΕΥΣΑΝΤ[..---]

EpiDoc (XML)

<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.

 

Images

  

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