I 21. Tyras. Dedicatory (?) inscription, 2nd half of I - II century C.E.

Monument

Type

Block. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 14.8, W. 15.5, Th. 16.6.

Additional description

The front is polished, the rest, including the back, are broken off. 

Place of Origin

Tyras. 

Find place

Belgorod-Dnestrovsky. 

Find context

Southern sector of the Central Trench, in secondary context. 

Find circumstances

Found in 2001, excavations of T.L. Samoylova. Field catalogue number: БТЭ-01, с. 73, № 573. 

Modern location

Odessa. 

Institution and inventory

Odessa Archaeological Museum, 92875. 

Autopsy

A.I. Ivantchik, August 2006. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. Broken off on all sides. H. 10.8, W. 12.3

Lettering

Deeply, evenly and neatly cut letters, following ruled lines; adorned with serifs. Alpha with broken crossbar; the middle horizontal of epsilon is detached and adorned with serifs on both ends; kappa with extended top diagonal; diagonals of sigma project beyond their intersection. Average distance between lines: 0,3cm. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.6-1.7

Text

Category

Dedicatory (?) inscription. 

Date

2nd half of I - II century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Ineditum. 

Edition

[---]
[---Με]νεκλε̣[ους---]
[---χ]ε̣ίλια καὶ Ε̣[---]
[---τ]ὸ̣ν ναὸν κ̣[αὶ ---]
[---] καὶ τῆς Ο̣[---]
5[---]Α̣ΤΟΠ[---]
[---] .. [---]
[---]

Diplomatic

[---]
[---..]ΝΕΚΛ.[...---]
[---.].ΙΛΙΑΚΑΙ.[---]
[---.].ΝΝΑΟΝ.[..---]
[---]ΚΑΙΤΗΣ.[---]
5[---].ΤΟΠ[---]
[---]··[---]
[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

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      		<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><supplied reason="lost">Με</supplied>νεκλ<unclear>ε</unclear><supplied reason="lost">ους</supplied><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><supplied reason="lost">χ</supplied><unclear>ε</unclear>ίλια 
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      		<lb n="3"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><supplied reason="lost">τ</supplied><unclear>ὸ</unclear>ν 
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      		<lb n="4"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> καὶ τῆς <orig><unclear>Ο</unclear></orig><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="5"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><orig><unclear>Α</unclear>ΤΟΠ</orig><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="6"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> <gap reason="illegible" quantity="2" unit="character"/> 
            <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      		<lb n="6a"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
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   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

[- - - of Me]nekles [- - -] thousand and [- - -] the temple and [- - -]

 

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(cc) © 2017 Askold Ivantchik (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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