III 117. Chersonesos.Dedication to Parthenos, I century C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.20.0, W.20.0, Th.9.0.

Additional description

Broken off on the top and right. The front is well worked, the back is treated summarily. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Central part of the cidadel, square of St. Vladimir cathedral. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1890, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (НА НЗХТ, д. 19, л. 5, № 35). 

Modern location

Sevastopol. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 35039. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Alpha with broken crossbar, dotted theta, nu with even verticals, large omicron, large oval omega, iota adscriptum, some flaring at the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.0

Text

Category

Dedicatory inscription. 

Date

I century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Latyshev1895, 10, № 5 (= Latyshev1895c, 516, № 6); IOSPE IV 86; IOSPE I2 412. 

Edition

[---]
Ζῆθου̣ [ὑπὲρ Γα-]
ζουρίου [τοῦ Μητρο-]
δώρου ἱε[ρ---]
Παρθένωι̣ vac.

Diplomatic

[---]
ΖΗΘΟ.[......-]
ΖΟΥΡΙΟΥ[........-]
ΔΩΡΟΥΙΕ[.---]
ΠΑΡΘΕΝΩ.      

EpiDoc (XML)

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Commentaries

Solomonik1990, 53, № 45. 

 
Apparatus criticus

3: ἱε[ρατεύσαντος ?] ed. pr. я не исключаю также ἱε[ρεὺς ἐὼν ---], относящееся к дедиканту (cf. № ipe 414 et 415).IOSPE
4: Παρθένῳ ed. pr.IOSPE

Translation

--- (son of) Zethos, (dedicated) to Parthenos on behalf of Gazourios, (son of) [Metro]doros.

 

Images

 

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