V 339. Taman peninsula (?).Epitaph of Hedonios, VI-VIIth centuries C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel (?). 

Material

Proconnesian (?) marble. 

Additional description

Unknown. 

Place of Origin

Taman peninsula (?). 

Find place

Taman peninsula (?). 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

1833-1834, survey of F. Dubois de Montpéreux. 

Modern location

Unknown. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Lapidary. Alpha with broken crossbar. 

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

VI-VIIth centuries C.E. 

Dating criteria

Formula, palaeography. 

Editions

L1. CIG II, 2129c; 2. Latyshev1896,110-111№ 101; 2. Vinogradov2010a, 158. 

Edition

[Ὑπὲρ] μνήμη[ς]
[καὶ ἀν]α[π-]
αύσε[ως] το[ῦ]
δούλ[ου] το-
5ῦ θ(εο)ῦ Ἱδονί[ου].
Ἐτ[ελιό]θ[η]
[μ]η[νὸς] Σεπτι-
βρήου ι´, ἱμ[έ-]
ρᾳ .´ . ἠν[δ(ικτιῶνος)]̣.

Diplomatic

[....]ΜΝΗΜΗ[.]
[.....]Α[.-]
ΑΥΣΕ[..]ΤΟ[.]
ΔΟΥΛ[..]ΤΟ
5ΥΘΥΙΔΟΝΙ[..]
ΕΤ[....]Θ[.]
[.]Η[...]ΣΕΠΤΙ
ΒΡΗΟΥΙΙΜ[.-]
ΡΑ·ΗΝ[.].

EpiDoc (XML)

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Apparatus criticus

1-9: [... μν]ήμη [... Σ]επτ[εμ]βρ[ί]ουBoeckh
8–9: [.´], ἡμ[έρᾳLatyshev

Translation

For the remembrance and rest of the servant of God, Hedonios. He died on the 10th of September, in..., in... indiction.

 

Commentary

The monument was discovered by Dubois de Montpéreux in one of Taman churches. It was first mentioned in print by Ashik (1843, 76, № 8). Due to the loss of the monument, it is impossible to say anything definitive about its shape or palaeography. On the one hand, the earliest example of the formula ἐτελειώθη in Crimea (see Introduction IV.3.F.а) is V 316 (767 C.E.); on the other hand, it is also attested in an inscription of the 2nd half of the VIth century from Constantinople (Schneider 1936, 397, № 2). Alpha with broken crossbar and the date according to indiction, without the year (as was rightly noted by Latyshev) support an Early Byzantine date. A day of the week preceded the indiction.

1–3. On the formula, see Introduction IV.3.F.a.

5. The name Hedonios (here Hidonios) occurs in Bosporus once before (CIRB 276); in Christian epigraphy, it is unknown.

 

Images

 Drawing of face

(cc)© 2015 Andrey Vinogradov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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