III 166. Chersonesos.Statue identification with honours for Sextus Vettulenus Cerialis, 73-78 C.E.

Monument

Type

Base. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.27.0, W.63.0, Th.59.0.

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1853 during the archaeological explorations of A.S. Uvarov. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Х.1853.35. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Slightly elongated letterstrokes, alpha with broken crossbar formed by two crisscrossing hastae, slight flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.5

Text

Category

Honorific inscription. 

Date

73-78 C.E. 

Dating criteria

Historical context, prosopography. 

Editions

Stefani 1860, 253, № 9; IOSPE I 197 (= IGR I 863); IOSPE I2 421. 

Edition

[Σ]έ̣ξ[τον Οὐεττουληνὸν]
Κεριᾶλιν Αὐτοκράτορος Οὐ[εσ-]
πασιανοῦ Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ
πρεσβευτὴν καὶ ἀντιστράτηγον
5ὁ δᾶμος

Diplomatic

[.].Ξ[... ............]
ΚΕΡΙΑΛΙΝΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΟΣΟΥ[..-]
ΠΑΣΙΑΝΟΥΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ
ΠΡΕΣΒΕΥΤΗΝΚΑΙΑΝΤΙΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΟΝ
5ΟΔΑΜΟΣ

EpiDoc (XML)

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Commentaries

Waddington 1872, 160-162; Minns 1913, 523; Stein 1940, 33; McCrum, Woodhead 1961, 280; Kadeev 1981, 23; Solomonik 1990, 29, № 20; Zubar 1994, 30; Kadeev 1996, 12; Treister 1999, 140, № 5 (26). 

 
Apparatus criticus

1: om.Stefani; in.: ΣΕΞ[ΤΟΝ]Waddington

Translation

 

Images

 

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