III 64. Chersonesos. Decree, 86/87 C.E.
Monument
Type
Panel.
Material
Marble.
Dimensions (cm)
H. 17.0, W. 9.5, Th. 5.5.
Additional description
Broken off on all sides. The front is planed. Remains of ten lines of text.
Place of Origin
Chersonesos.
Find place
Sevastopol (Chersonesos).
Find context
South sector of Chersonesos, area of ancient theatre of the III century B.C.E., fill of a pit (study of the area near the cistern discovered in 1970 in the excavations of O.I. Dombrovsky).
Find circumstances
Found in 1996.
Modern location
Sevastopol.
Institution and inventory
National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 1/37290.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Wide, quite deeply cut letters, mu with slightly slanted outer hastae, iota adscriptum; light flaring of the ends of hastae.
Letterheights (cm)
1–1.2.
Text
Category
Decree.
Date
86/87 C.E.
Dating criteria
Explicit date.
Editions
Grakov, Vinogradov 1970, 88, № 2 (= SEG 56, 872; cf. Bull.ép. 2007, 410 (Avram)).
[---] θέμεν [ἐν τῶι ἐπισα]μ[οτάτωι τᾶς ἀκροπόλιος]
[όπωι· ταῦτ᾿ ἔδοξε βουλ]ᾶι δάμ[ωι βασιλευούσας?]
[Παρθένου? ἔτεος] vac. αιρ´, vac. ἱερέ[ως] δὲ [---]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]ος vac. μη[νὸς - - - - - - - - - - ]
5[---]ΤΩΝΤΩΝ[---]
[---]ΙΟΝΝΑ[---]
[---]Ν̣ΠΕΡΙΗ[---]
[---].ΤΩΝ[---]
[---]ΟΝΤ[---]
10[---] Φλ []
[---]
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="0"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> <seg part="F">θέμεν</seg> <supplied reason="lost">ἐν</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost">τῶι</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">ἐπισα</supplied>μ<supplied reason="lost">οτάτωι</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost">τᾶς</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">ἀκροπόλιος</supplied>
<lb n="3"/><supplied reason="lost">όπωι· ταῦτ᾿ ἔδοξε</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">βουλ</supplied>ᾶι
δάμ<supplied reason="lost">ωι</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low">βασιλευούσας</supplied>
<lb n="3"/><supplied reason="lost" cert="low">Παρθένου</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost">ἔτεος</supplied> <space extent="unknown" unit="character"/> <num value="111">αιρ</num>,
<space extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
ἱερέ<supplied reason="lost">ως</supplied> δὲ <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
<lb n="4"/><gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="line"/><seg part="F">ος</seg> <space extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
μη<supplied reason="lost">νὸς</supplied> <gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="line"/>
<lb n="5"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="M">ΤΩΝΤΩΝ</seg><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
<lb n="6"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="M">ΙΟΝΝΑ</seg><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
<lb n="7"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="M"><unclear>Ν</unclear>ΠΕΡΙΗ</seg><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
<lb n="8"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/><seg part="M">ΤΩΝ</seg><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
<lb n="9"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="M">ΟΝΤ</seg><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
<lb n="10"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
<expan><abbr>Φλ</abbr><app type="alternative"><rdg><ex>άουιος</ex></rdg></app><app type="alternative"><rdg><ex>αουίου</ex></rdg></app></expan>
<supplied reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
<lb n="10a"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
</ab>
</div> Apparatus criticus
5:
[ἐπὶ ἀρχόν]των τῶν [περί] (cf. № ipe404, стк.
50).
7:
[τῶ]ν περί Η[---]
Translation
[- - -] to set [it up in the most pro]m[inent place of the acropolis. This was decided by the Coun]cil and the Peo[ple, in the reign of Parthenos,] when the priest [was - - -], in the month [- - -]
Images
© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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