III 597. Neapolis Scythica. Dedication to Rhodos, mid - 2nd half of II century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Base. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 24.0, W. 50.0, Th. 50.0.

Additional description

Broken in two pieces. 

Place of Origin

Neapolis Scythica. 

Find place

Simferopol (Kermenchik/Neapolis Scythica?). 

Find context

On plot D in the northwestern part of the citadel. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1958, excavations of A.N. Karasev. 

Modern location

Moscow, Russia. 

Institution and inventory

State Historical Museum, 96854. 

Autopsy

My autopsy in December 2013 showed that the front had suffered recent damage: right half of the inscription was chipped off. According to D.V. Zhuravlev, this chipped off fragment has since been rediscovered in the museum storage. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Uneven letters; alpha with straight crossbar, pi with short right vertical. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.5-2.5

Text

Category

Dedicatory inscription. 

Date

Mid - 2nd half of II century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Dashevskaya 1960, 261; Solomonik 1962, 41; Zaitsev 2003, 52, № 18. 

Edition

Ῥ[ό]δωι
Ποσίδε[ο]ς Ποσιδέọ[υ]
χαρι[σ]τήριο̣[ν]

Diplomatic

Ρ[.]ΔΩΙ
ΠΟΣΙΔΕ[.]Σ ΠΟΣΙΔΕ.[.]
ΧΑΡΙ[.]ΤΗΡΙ.[.]

EpiDoc (XML)

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Commentaries

Bull.ép. 1965, 272; Κοντορίνη 1981, 226 слл; Vinogradov 1989, 244; Vinogradov 1997, 68; Treister 1999, 136, № 5 (21); Gushchina, Zhuravlev, et al. 2001, 231, № 5; Hupe 2003, 293. 

 
Apparatus criticus

Legit Дашевская 1960.

Translation

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

 

Commentary

The cult of goddess Rhodos, divine personification of the polis of Rhodians, developed after the synoecism of Rhodos (408/7 B.C.E.) and is attested, besides Rhodos itself, mainly in the territories that were under its influence (Cos, Naxos and others). See further Hupe 2003, 293.

 

Images

 

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