I 3. Tyras. Honorific decree, 211 C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

White marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 10.9, W. 16.3, Th. 5.1.

Additional description

The front is carefully worked: the epigraphic field is polished and framed by a polished relief border. The left and bottom sides are summarily treated with the use of tooth chisel, the back is roughly picked, the other faces are broken off. Decoration: the epigraphic field is framed by a polished relief border. On the left, the moulding is elaborately profile. 

Place of Origin

Tyras. 

Find place

Belgorod-Dnestrovsky. 

Find context

Secondary context: moved soil layer in a medieval building 26-Ф (above building 424). 

Find circumstances

Found in 1981, excavations of I.B. Kleyman. Field inventory record: БД-81, № 35. 

Modern location

Odessa. 

Institution and inventory

Odessa Archaeological Museum, 88188. 

Autopsy

A. I. Ivantchik, August 2007. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Border width 6,0. The epigraphic field is inset to the depth of 0,8cm and damaged on all sides except the left. Left margin: 1,5. Average distance between lines: 0,4cm.  H. 10.3, W. 7.2

Lettering

Letters are neatly and deeply cut, with straight lines, although the ruling is absent. Small serifs. Cursive omega. Rectangular sigma. Frequent ligatures. 

Letterheights (cm)

0.9-1.1

Text

Category

Honorific decree. 

Date

211 C.E. 

Dating criteria

Explicit date, titulature. 

Editions

Ineditum. 

Edition

[---]
δοθῆ[ναι δὲ τὸ ψήφισμα --- ἀν-]
ηνγελμεν[ον? (τῷ δεῖνι τοῦ δεῖνος) τῷ αὐτοῦ πατ-]
ρι τελειωθ[ὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ γραμματέως τῆς πόλεως Οὐαλερί-]
ου ῾Ρούφο̣[υ ἀναγράψαι δὲ εἰς στήλην καὶ σταθῆναι ἐν τῷ ἐπι-]
5φανεστάτ̣[ῷ τῆς πόλεως τόπῳ ---]
ἐγένετο̣ [ἐν Τύρᾳ --- Λολλιανῷ]
Γ̣εντι̣[ανῷ καὶ Πομπωνίῳ Βάσσῳ ὑπάτοις, ὡς δὲ Τυρανοὶ]
[ἄγουσιν ἔτους ενρ´ ἀρχόντων δὲ τῶν περὶ --- κτλ]

Diplomatic

[---]
ΔΟΘΗ[..............---..-]
ΗΝΓΕΛΜΕΝ[............................-]
ΡΙΤΕΛΕΙΩΘ[..................................-]
ΟΥ῾ΡΟΥΦ.[.......................................-]
5ΦΑΝΕΣΤΑ.[..............---]
ΕΓΕΝΕΤ.[......---........]
.ΕΝΤ.[......................................]
[................................---...]

EpiDoc (XML)

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Apparatus criticus

2: ΗΓΗ, ΜΕ in ligatura
3: ΤΕ in ligatura
7: ΝΤ in ligatura

Translation

[- - - this decision?] announced, to be given [to ---, (son of) ---, his fath]er?; the [decision] edited [by the secretary of the polis Valeri]us Rufus; [to inscribe on a stele and set up in the most pro]minent [place of the city - - -]. Took place[ in Tyras, when Lollianus] Gen[tianus and Pomponius Bassus were consuls, or as the citizens of Tyras hold, in the year 155, when archons under the leadership, etc. - - -]

 

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