III 6. Chersonesos. Decree honouring a doctor (?), mid-2nd half of II century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 9.0, W. 12.0, Th. 2.0.

Additional description

Broken off on all sides except the left edge. In secondary use: on the back - traces of a later inscription, possibly an epitaph (see III 200). 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Central part of Chersonesos (the so-called "acropolis" in the south area of the monastery grounds). 

Find circumstances

Found in 1903, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (archive of Institute for the History of Material Culture: ИИМК, Р 2, № 125). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, no inventory number. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. I was not able to find the monument in the repository of the National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with curved crossbar, sometimes with open top, delta and lambda also sometimes with open top, nu with short right vertical, mu with vertical outer hastae, omicron smaller than other letters, four-bar sigma with splayed bars 

Letterheights (cm)

0.8

Text

Category

Decree. 

Date

Mid-2nd half of II century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Latyshev 1905, 102, № 10; IOSPE I2 348 (= Samama 2003, 200, № 103). 

Edition

[---]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ἀρρωστημάτων ἐμπε-]
[σόντων μεγ]άλω[ν] κα[ὶ ἐπικινδύνων φιλοτί-]
[μως ἀνε]σ̣τ̣ράφη καὶ πο[ιησάμενος ἀπόδειξιν τᾶς]
[τέχ]νας εὐδοκίμησε κ̣[αὶ ---]
5[τ]ὰν ἀναστροφὰν εὔτ[ακτόν τε καὶ πρέπου-]
σαν τᾶι τέχναι πεπο̣[ίηται δι’ ἃ δεδόχθαι τᾶι]
βουλᾶι καὶ τῶι δάμω[ι ἐπαινέσαι τε αὐτὸν ἐ-]
πὶ τούτοις καὶ δεδό[σθαι ---]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]Ι̣Α̣Ν̣. [---]
[---]

Diplomatic

[---]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ................-]
[.........]ΑΛΩ[.]ΚΑ[..................-]
[......]..ΡΑΦΗΚΑΙΠΟ[.....................]
[...]ΝΑΣΕΥΔΟΚΙΜΗΣΕ.[..---]
5[.]ΑΝΑΝΑΣΤΡΟΦΑΝΕΥΤ[................-]
ΣΑΝΤΑΙΤΕΧΝΑΙΠΕΠ.[....................]
ΒΟΥΛΑΙΚΑΙΤΩΙΔΑΜΩ[..................-]
ΠΙΤΟΥΤΟΙΣΚΑΙΔΕΔΟ[....---]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]...·[---]
[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

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Commentaries

Wilhelm 1924, 133, № 8 (SEG 3, 599); Cohn-Haft 1956 № 45; Vinogradov 1997, 52; Dana 2011, 192. 

 
Apparatus criticus

1-4: in.: supplevit Wilhelm (cf. Syll3. 620, l.13; Michel 425, l. 5).
4: κ[αὶ τάν τε ἐνδαμίαν καὶ] Rostovzev apud IOSPE; κ[αὶ τᾶς ἐποδαμίας --- | τ]ὰν ἀναστροφάν (cf. IOSPE3 III 24, l. 5). Vinogradov
5-8: IOSPE I2
5-6: [ἁρμόζου]σαν (?) Wilhelm
7: [ἐπαινέσαι] scripsi; [ἐπῃνῆσθαι] Latyshev, Samama; [ἐπαινῆσθαι] sic. IOSPE I2
9: fortasse [--- προξεν]ί̣αν κ[αὶ πο[λιτείαν ---]

Translation

[--- when great and dangerous illnesses befell (the city), he zealously cond]ucted himself and, mak[ing a display of his art,] was highly esteemed --- [and he] made his stay ord[erly and fitti]ng to his art; [for which (reasons), the Council and the People [shall deem it good to praise him on account of these and grant [him ---].

 

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