III 95. Chersonesos.Decree, ca. mid-II century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.9.5, W.11.5, Th.2.5.

Additional description

Partly preserved bottom left area. The front and back are planed. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector of Chersonesos, by the Quarantine Bay. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1971, excavations of I.A. Antonova. 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 31/36504. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Top and bottom bars of epsilon extend left of the vertical, oval theta with detached crossbar, omicron of different sizes, pi with extended horizontal; large serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.6

Text

Category

Decree. 

Date

Ca. mid-II century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Solomonik1978, 70, № 5. 

Edition

[---]
[---γραμματεύοντος ---]
υἱοῦ Πα̣[---ἐσφραγίσαντο· στίχος α´]· [θεά βασίλισσα Παρ-]
θένος, Ἀπ[--- πρῶτος ἄρχων---]
υἱὸς Φλαου̣[ίου--- Πυ-]
θόδο[τος---]
[---]

Diplomatic

[---]
[---..............---]
ΥΙΟΥΠ.[---...................................-]
ΘΕΝΟΣΑΠ[---...........---]
ΥΙΟΣΦΛΑΟ.[...---..-]
ΘΟΔΟ[...---]
[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

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Commentaries

SEG 28, 633. 

 
Apparatus criticus

2: Ἀπ[̣ολλώνιος ?] ed.pr.
3: in.: Φλαου̣[ίου Ἀρίστωνος ?] ed.pr.
4-5: 4, fin.-5: [Τ. Φλάουιος Πυ]/θόδο̣[τος υἱὸς Φλαουίου Ἀγεπόλεως ? - - -] ed.pr.

Translation

- - - [when - - - served as secretary] of son Pa[- - - . Applied their seals, in the first row: goddess queen Par]thenos], Ap[- - -, first archon] son of Flav[ius - - - Py]thodo[tos - - -]

 

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