III 126. Chersonesos.Dedication, 1st half of I century C.E.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.24.0, W.23.0, Th.7.0.

Additional description

Fragment of the top of a pedimental stele. The front is well worked, the back is treated summarily. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

North sector of Chersonesos, grid square IX (Building 1). 

Find circumstances

Found in 2000, excavations of S.G. Ryzhov 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 1/37349. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Large, but not deeply cut letters; omicron of the same size with other letters, rho with a small loop, sigma with horizontal top and bottom bars and widely splayed middle bars; light serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.6

Text

Category

Dedicatory inscription. 

Date

1st half of I century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography, prosopography. 

Editions

Makarov2007, 62 (= SEG 57, 701; AE 2007 [2010], 1242). 

Edition

[ὑπὲρ βασιλέ]ος Κόττυος Ῥο[ιμητάλκα ---]
[---]εινος Γυμν̣[---] ἀνέθηκεν [ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[--- θε]ο̣ῖς ἐ[π]η[κόοις ---]
[---]

Diplomatic

[..........]ΟΣΚΟΤΤΥΟΣΡΟ[........---]
[---]ΕΙΝΟΣΓΥΜ.[---]ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---..].ΙΣΕ[.]Η[.....---]
[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

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Commentaries

Bull.ép. 2008, 410 (Avram); Saprykin2011, 271. 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: fortasse Ῥο[ιμητάλκα τοῦ Κόττυος] vel Ῥο[ιμητάλκα τοῦ Ῥαισκουπόρεως]
2: Γυμν[---] начало патронимика или, возможно, причастия γυμν[ασιαρχῶν]; не исключено e.g.: [ὁ δεῖνα τοῦ δεῖνος ὁ καὶ ---]εινος γυμν[ασιαρχῶν ? ---].

Translation

[On behalf of king] Kottys, (son of) Rh[oimetalkes, - - -]einos, (son of) Gymn[- - -, dedicated to] to the gods who listen [- - -].

 

Commentary

A dedication on behalf of Thracian king Kottys VIII (12-19 C.E.), made in Chersonesos, which was dependent on the Bosporan Kingdom at that time, and in view of close dynasitc ties between Bosporus and Thrace in early decades of I century C.E., should cause no surprise. See Makarov 2007, 67ff.

 

Images

 

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