III 167. Chersonesos.Statue identification with honours for Sextus Octavius Fronto, 91/92 - 97 C.E.
Monument
Type
Base.
Material
Marble.
Dimensions (cm)
H.22.0, W.73.0, Th.61.0.
Additional description
On the top surface - two depressions for the feet of the statue. On the front, a four-line inscription is fully preserved. The sides and back and well worked.
Place of Origin
Chersonesos.
Find place
Sevastopol (Balaklava).
Find context
Unknown.
Find circumstances
Random find in 1886 in Balaklava, near the French cemetery. Acquired in 1887 by P.P. Vacquier (see Latyshev 1890, 139) and transferred to the Historical Museum (now State Historical Museum, Moscow).
Modern location
Moscow, Russian Federation.
Institution and inventory
State Historical Museum, 78607.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Slightly elongated letters somewhat leaning to the right, alpha with broken crossbar, wide delta, slight flaring of the ends of letterstrokes.
Letterheights (cm)
3.0
Text
Category
Honorific inscription.
Date
91/92 - 97 C.E.
Dating criteria
Historical context, prosopography.
Editions
Latyshev 1887, 66 (= Latyshev 1887a, 164); IOSPE IV 93 (cf. Latyshev 1890, 140; (= IGR I 862)); IOSPE I2 422.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/>Σέξστον
Ὀκτάουιον
Φρόντωνα πρεσβευ
<lb n="2" break="no"/>τὴν καὶ ἀντιστράτηγον Αὐτοκράτορος
Δομε
<lb n="3" break="no"/>τιανοῦ Καίσαρος θεοῦ Σεβαστοῦ
Γερμανι
<lb n="4"/>κοῦ <space quantity="9" unit="character" precision="low"/> ὁ δάμος
</ab>
</div>Commentaries
Minns 1913, 523; Stein 1940, 58; McCrum, Woodhead 1961, 310; Kadeev 1981, 24; Solomonik 1990, 31, № 21; Zubar 1994, 30; Кадеев 1996, 12; Treister 1999, 141, № 7 (28).
Translation
People (set up the statue) for Sextus Octavius Fronto, legate and propraetor of emperor Domitian, caesar, god, Augustus Germanicus.
Images
© 2017 Igor
Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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