III 595. Neapolis Scythica. Dedication to Athena Lindia, middle - 2nd half of II century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Base. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 27.0, W. 47.5, Th. 17.0.

Additional description

Broken off on the front and back. 

Place of Origin

Neapolis Scythica. 

Find place

Simferopol (Kermenchik/Neapolis Scythica?). 

Find context

South area of the citadel, quarry works in Kermenchik. (In a rock-cut pit that served as an undergound part of the monumental tomb of Argotos). 

Find circumstances

Random find in 1827, bought by A.I. Sultan-Krym-Girey and passed on to I.P. Blaramberg. 

Modern location

Odessa, Ukraine 

Institution and inventory

Odessa Archaeological Museum, 50384. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with broken crossbar, pi with short right vertical and extended horizontal; serifs and flaring of the ends of hastae. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.0 - 2.5

Text

Category

Dedicatory inscription. 

Date

Middle - 2nd half of II century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Blaramberg 1827 (= Blaramberg 1831); Blaramberg 1831, 60; 2, 2103c; IOSPE I 243; IOSPE I2 671; Solomonik 1962, 37; Zaitsev 2003, 50, №4. 

Edition

[Ἀθ]η̣νᾶι Λινδίαι
[Ποσίδ]εος Ποσιδέου̣
[χα]ριστήριον.

Diplomatic

[..].ΝΑΙΛΙΝΔΙΑΙ
[.....]ΕΟΣ ΠΟΣΙΔΕΟ.
[..]ΡΙΣΤΗΡΙΟΝ

EpiDoc (XML)

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         Λινδίαι
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      	     Ποσιδέο<unclear>υ</unclear>
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Commentaries

Minns 1913, 463; Bull.ép., 1964, 272; Κοντορίνη 1981, 226 слл; Vinogradov 1997, 68; Treister 1999, 36, № 3(19); Hupe 2003, 293. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Legit Boeck (CIG) ; Ἀθηνᾶι Λινδίαι Blaramberg 1827

Translation

Posideos, (son of) Posideos, (dedicated) to Athena Lindia, a thanks offering.

 

Images

 

(cc) © 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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