III 155. Chersonesos. Honorific inscription, 14 - 9/8 B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Base. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 12.0, W. 81.0, Th. 21.5.

Additional description

Part of a base, first reused as another base, and then as a threshold for a Medieval sepulchre. The top is carved out; on the bottom, there are depressions for "the left foot of a statue and for either a spear butt, or some other support" (Latyshev 1899). On the front: a relief crown and six-line inscription cut following ruled lines. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Northeast sector of the citadel, in a tomb below the chapel discovered in 1891. 

Find circumstances

Random find in 1898, during the excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich 

Modern location

Unknown. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown, 3611. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. The monument is considered lost. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Mu with slightly slanting outer hastae, pi with even verticals and extended horizontal, four-bar sigma with parallel top and bottom bars; absence of decorative elements at the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.0

Text

Category

Honorific inscription. 

Date

14 - 9/8 B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Prosopography. 

Editions

Latyshev 1899, 9, № 6 (= IOSPE IV 91); IOSPE I2 419; Vinogradov 1992, 135 (= SEG 42 696; cf. Vinogradov 1997, 566). 

Edition

ἐπὶ τᾶς συμμα-
χίας γενηθέν
τι τᾶς πρὸς β[α-]
σιλέα Πολέμω-
5να καὶ ἁγεμό-
[νεύσαντι].

Diplomatic

ΕΠΙΤΑΣΣΥΜΜΑ
ΧΙΑΣΓΕΝΗΘΕΝ
ΤΙΤΑΣΠΡΟΣΒ[.-]
ΣΙΛΕΑΠΟΛΕΜΩ
5ΝΑΚΑΙΑΓΕΜΟ
[........]

EpiDoc (XML)

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      		<lb n="2" break="no"/>χίας γενηθέν 
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      		<lb n="4" break="no"/>σιλέα Πολέμω 
      		<lb n="5" break="no"/>να καὶ ἁγεμό
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Commentaries

Sokolov 1902; Wilhelm 1909, 210, № 184; Gaydukevich 1949, 322; Kadeev 1979, 59 (cf. Kadeev 1981, 17); Zubar 1987, 127; Saprykin 1993, 34 (cf. Saprykin 2002, 126); Vinogradov 1994, 163, approx. 67; Zubar 1994, 18 (cf. Canali de Rossi 1997, 31); Zubar 2004, 44; Solomonik 1990, 26, № 15. 

 
Apparatus criticus

5-6: δι’ ἁγεμο|[νίαν εὐτυχῆ (?)] Latyshev, IOSPE; [κ]αὶ ἁγεμό|ν[ι το]ῦ [στόλου (?)] Wilhelm; καὶ ἁγεμό|να Μυσίας̣ (однако буквы, отмеченные точками не поддаются идентификации на эстампаже). Vinogradov 1992
6: supplevi

Translation

 

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