III 3. Chersonesos. Decree honouring a citizen of Olbia, 1st half of III century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 19.0, W. 18.0, Th. 36.0.

Additional description

Broken off on all sides. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Main street, wall of a Byzantine building. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1904, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. The monument is considered lost. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with straight crossbar, omicron smaller than other letters. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.1

Text

Category

Decree. 

Date

1st half of III century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

1. Latyshev 1905, 100, № 8; 2. IOSPE I2 345; 3. , 51-64 (SEG 42, 692); 3.1. 491. 

Edition

[--- Ἀ]θ̣αναίου εἶπε· ἐπ̣[ειδὴ]
[---]ΟΥ [Ὀλ]βιοπολίτ[ας]
[ἀνὴρ ἀγαθ]ὸ[ς γίνε]τα̣[ι κ]αὶ εὔν[ους τᾶι ἁμε-]
[τέραι πόλ]ει κα[ὶ ---] τοῖς ἀ[φικνουμέ-]
5[νοις τῶν] πολιτᾶν παρ’ αὐτὸν [---]
[χρείας] παρέχεται [καὶ] κοιν[ᾶι καὶ ἰδίαι]
[---]

Diplomatic

[---.].ΑΝΑΙΟΥΕΙΠΕΕ.[....]
[---]ΟΥ[..]ΒΙΟΠΟΛΙΤ[..]
[........]Ο[.....]Τ.[..]ΑΙΕΥΝ[.........-]
[........]ΕΙΚΑ[.---]ΤΟΙΣΑ[........-]
5[.......]ΠΟΛΙΤΑΝΠΑΡΑΥΤΟΝ[---]
[......]ΠΑΡΕΧΕΤΑΙ[...]ΚΟΙΝ[..........]
[---]

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Commentaries

Vinogradov 1989, 171. 

 
Apparatus criticus

E: Vinogradov 1990
2: [ὁ δεῖνα Ε]ὐθίου Latyshev, IOSPE I2
3: [ἀνὴρ καλὸς καὶ ἀγαθ]ὸ[ς] Vinogradov
3-4: [ἀνὴρ ἀγαθός ἐστι ... [κ]αὶ εὔνουν ἑαυτὸν παρέχ]ει IOSPE I2
4: κα[ὶ εἰς Ὀλβίαν] Vinogradov
5: [ἀπροφασίστως ? ] Vinogradov

Translation

[---] (son of) Athanaios proposed: since [---], citizen of Olbia, is a good man and well-disposed to our polis, and supplies from his own means [the needs] of those citizens who come to him, [both] publ[ic and private] - - -

 

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