III 150. Chersonesos.Building inscription, ca. 245 C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.30.0, W.34.0, Th.11.0.

Additional description

Left side of a panel with three lines of text. The front is polished. Recarved from an inscribed statue base of the Hellenistic period (see III 165). Was also used in the facing of one of the defensive towers of Chersonesos, In the Middle Ages, reused as a threshold. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

Found some time before 1872, when the monument was sent to Moscow. 

Modern location

Moscow, Russia. 

Institution and inventory

State Historical Museum, 41.100. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Elongated letters, cursive epsilon, sigma, pi with extended horizontal; serifs. 

Letterheights (cm)

6.0

Text

Category

Building inscription. 

Date

Ca. 245 C.E. 

Dating criteria

Explicit date. 

Editions

IOSPE I 211; IOSPE I2 439. 

Edition

[---]
[--- ἐν τῷ]
σο´ ἔτει Υ.[---]
κατεσκε[ύασε --- τὸν πύρ-]
γον τῇ π̣[όλει? ---]
vac.

Diplomatic

[---]
[---....]
ΣΟΕΤΕΙΥ·[---]
ΚΑΤΕΣΚΕ[....---......-]
ΓΟΝΤΗ.[....---]
     vacat

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="0"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
      <lb n="0a"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> 
          <supplied reason="lost">ἐν τῷ</supplied>
      <lb n="1"/><g ref="#stop"/> <num value="270">σο</num> <g ref="#stop"/> ἔτει 
          <g ref="#stop"/> <orig>Υ</orig><gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      <lb n="2"/>κατεσκε<supplied reason="lost">ύασε</supplied> 
          <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> 
          <supplied reason="lost">τὸν</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">πύρ</supplied><lb n="3" break="no"/>γον τῇ 
        <unclear>π</unclear><supplied reason="lost" cert="low">όλει</supplied> 
        <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
      <lb n="4"/><space extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
   </ab>
   </div>
Commentaries

Latyshev1892a, 365, ad № 211 (= IOSPE IV p. 281, ad № 211). 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: ὑπ[̣ὲρ - - -]IOSPE I2; υι[- - -]IOSPE
2-3: suppl. Кондаков apud IOSPE

Translation

[- - - in] the year 270 - - - buil[t - - - a to]wer for the[city?] - - -

 

Commentary

On the local Chersonesian era, see Bertye-Delagard 1893, 46ff.

 

Images

 

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