III 129. Chersonesos.Dedication of altar to Zeus Diberanos, 2nd half of II - early III century C.E.

Monument

Type

Altar. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.18.5, W.13.5, Th.12.5.

Additional description

Upper part of a rectangular altar, broken off on the bottom. Well worked on the sides and front. The top is treated summarily. On the left and right sides: reliefs of an eagle with wings down (on the left side, there is damage at the bottom). Eagles' heads, with wreaths in their beaks, are turned towards the front surface. The artistly is quite primitive, almost without any detailing. Seven lines of text on the front. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

In a stone rubble pile, on the highway near the junction of the Quarantine Gully and Quarantine Bay (in the area of a supposed ancient road to Chersonesos and of an ancient necropolis). 

Find circumstances

Found in 1950s, during road works. Subsequently acquired by the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. 

Modern location

Moscow, Russia. 

Institution and inventory

The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, no inventory number. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Variations in lettershapes: alpha with straight and broken crossbar, cursive and angular sigma and omega; iota adscriptum and subscriptum; serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.3–1.8

Text

Category

Dedicatory inscription. 

Date

2nd half of II - early III century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography, general appearance. 

Editions

Grakov, Vinogradov1970, 129, № 2 (= Bull.ép. 1973, 307). 

Edition

ἀγαθῆι τύχηι·-
εὐχαρισ-
τήριον θε-
ῷ Διὶ Διβε-
5ρανῳ εὐ-
χῆς χάριν
[---]

Diplomatic

ΑΓΑΘΗΙΤΥΧΗΙ
ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣ
ΤΗΡΙΟΝΘΕ
ΩΔΙΙΔΙΒΕ
5ΡΑΝΩΕΥ
ΧΗΣΧΑΡΙΝ
[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

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   <ab>
      		<lb n="1"/>ἀγαθῆι τύχηι· 
      		<lb n="2" break="no"/>εὐχαρισ 
      		<lb n="3" break="no"/>τήριον θε
      		<lb n="4" break="no"/>ῷ Διὶ Διβε
      		<lb n="5" break="no"/>ρανῳ εὐ
      		<lb n="6" break="no"/>χῆς χάριν 
      		<lb n="6a"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

НЭПХ II (Solomonik 1973) с. 92–95; Vinogradov1975, 173; Stefani1874, 56 (= Bull.ép. 1990, 571 (Vinogradov); SEG 40, 618); Solomonik1990, 60, № 50. 

 
Apparatus criticus

6: fin.: hedera.

Translation

With good fortune. Thanks offering to god Zeus Diberanos, on account of a prayer ---.

 

Images

 

(cc)© 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
You may download this inscription in EpiDoc XML. (This file should validate to theEpiDoc schema.)