I 47. Tyras. Incertum, II century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble, white. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 9.0, W. 12.5, Th. 2.3.

Additional description

The front is either planed or polished. Broken off on all sides, except the top. The dimensions are provided according to Nicorescu. 

Place of Origin

Tyras. 

Find place

Belgorod-Dnestrovsky. 

Find context

Trench 21, outer courtyard of the fortress, among building remains of the Roman Imperial period. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1929, excavations of Nicorescu. 

Modern location

Unknown. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. Broken off on all sides, except the top. The top right area is effaced. 

Lettering

Deeply and neatly cut letters with serifs, following ruled lines. Alpha with straight crossbar. Lunate sigma. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.3

Text

Category

Incertum. 

Date

II century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

L1. Nicorescu 1933, 569, No. 4, fig. 5; 1.1. Karyshkovsky 1959, 121, No. 12. 

Edition

[---]ΣΑΥΤ̣Ο̣[---]
[---]Υ̣ΑΝΤ[---]
[---]Υ[---]
[---]

Diplomatic

[---]ΣΑΥ..[---]
[---].ΑΝΤ[---]
[---]Υ[---]
[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

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   <ab>
      		<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig>ΣΑΥ<unclear>ΤΟ</unclear></orig><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig><unclear>Υ</unclear>ΑΝΤ</orig><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="3"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig>Υ</orig><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="4"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

Not attempted.

 

Commentary

The fate of this inscription, as well as of the other from the excavations of Nicorescu, is unknown: it has not been possible to locate them in Belgorod, Jasi, or Bucarest.

In line 1, we can restore -]ς ἀυτ̣ο̣[-: this might be a pronoun, beginning of a personal name, or a reference to an emperor.

In line 2, there is probably an ending of a personal name in the Genitive (a patronymic) and a beginning of one of many names in Ἀντι-, so -ο]υ̣ Ἀντ[ι-. Alternatively, we could restore an emperor's name Ἀντ[ωνίνου in combination with θεοῦ or Μάρκου; in that case, we could be reasonably certain that the text opened with the imperial titulature. None of these restorations is however secure.

 

Images

 

(cc) © 2017 Askold Ivantchik (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
You may download this inscription in EpiDoc XML. (This file should validate to the EpiDoc schema.)