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Inscriptions from the Khersonesea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2013

Daphne Hereward
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At Madutos, once in the Church of St. Constantine, now built into the wall of the house of Salik Yavaş 37, Arif Hikmet Caddesi, Kemalpaşa Mahallesi, Eceabat. Squared but incomplete, creamy stone. Height *0·4 m., breadth *0·55, thickness unascertainable; letter and space down 0·027 in line 1, 0·061 for the rest; letter and space across 0·32.

For the use of ἀγαθῆι τύχηι in Thracian inscriptions there are references in Dumont–Homolle. The letters in line 2 may come from εἰμί and τίτλος, but it seems unlikely, or they may be some expression with ἐπι-. The letters in the third line are probably not from a name, but possibly from Αγοραν̣[ομησας] or αγοραν̣[ομος] may be the next word, though the last letter is more likely to have been iota or sigma than nu.

The dedicatory phrase ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ποιήσας ἀνέστησεν occurs in, for instance, Traiana Augusta in A.D. 187. There seem to be no parallels in the vicinity for the name Lakunios or Lakunis. There is a similar inscription from Madutos in BCH 1912, 307.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 57 , November 1962 , pp. 176 - 185
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1962

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References

1 Mélanges d'archéologie et d'épigraphie (1892) 508. (Here-after called Dumont–Homolle.)

2 Where εἰμί is used (e.g. IG xii. 8. 91 and 577 add.) it is usually clearer than this, and τίτλος should be a tomb-stone; cf. (e.g.) titulus in Dumont–Homolle 515, τίτλος in IGRR 330.

3 This would also rule out Several meanings of ἀγορά, and compounds of the word, none of which will really fit here, will be found in Dittenberger's index; cf. also Dumont–Homolle 289 and 332, no. 27; the index of OGIS; IG xii. 8. 67, 70, 184; SEG iv. 706; Heuzey, –Daumet, , Macédoine (hereafter called Heuzey–Daumet) 327Google Scholar, no. 132. For a native of the city of Agora, see Dumont—Homolle 332, 497;for gods called see (for example) BCH 1900, 270.

4 Dumont–Homolle 314 and 535. Cf. also BCH 1913, 97.

5 See for this Archaeology 1958, 129; Proceedings of the Classical Association 1957; and Robert, L. in Hellenica x. 268.Google Scholar

6 Dumont–Homolle 116 ff., 419 f.

7 e.g. IG xii suppl. p. 160, xii. 8. 368; Pouilloux, , Recherches sur l'histoire et les cultes de Thasos i (1958) 332Google Scholar (Delos); ibid. 358 no. 139 (Thasos).

8 Pouilloux, op. cit. ii. 23, no. 171.

9 For boards of generals in Hellenistic cities, and eponymous priests, see Jones, , Greek City 46–47, 163–4, 239.Google Scholar Cf. also Bengtson, , Die Strategie ii. 232, 247.Google Scholar

10 Dittenberger3 1157, c. 100 B.C., Heuzey–Daumet 426, no. 200, fourth century B.C.; JHS 1896, 233 (Teikhioussa).

11 See, in general, Demitsas, M., Ἡ Μακεδονία i (1896)Google Scholar, with and the indexes of SIG 3, Heuzey–Daumet, Dumont–Homolle, and Pouilloux, op. cit., for Agathokles, Apollonides, Agias (Hagias?), Demetrios, Demosthenes, Dion, Kallippos, Kleogenes, Menekrates, Menestratos, Simos, Sostratos, Theogenes, Theognis.

12 Rare: Menedemos (Macedonia: Demitsas 214, 261, Μακ. Προσωπ, 915), Menes (Arrian ii. 12. 4, Macedonia; SIG 3 246, Sestos), Menesaikhmos (Thasos: see Pouilloux, op. cit., index), Sosos (Dumont–Homolle 391, Herakleia Perinthos). Apparently unattested: Hegesiphon, Lusikrates, Melanthios, Phoinix. Zotikhos is fairly frequent in the Roman period, but no instance of it seems to occur in the vicinity before.

13 That was what the Turks called the fountain; refugees from the district, near Thessalonike, say that it was called Yeni Çeşme.

14 Alexandros, Antipatros, Aristomenes, Hekataios, Menandros, Menis (more commonly hereabout's with gen. -ιος), Nikomakhos, Perdikkas, Philippos, Philotas, Theogenes, Timolaos (for general bibliogr., see n. 11). Of the two Dionysiac names, Bakkhios is well attested (Thessaly, Heuzey–Daumet 426, no. 100; Odessos, , Bulgaria 104Google Scholar; Gargara, , SIG 3330Google Scholar; Thrace, , IG ii 2. 1956Google Scholar, and BCH 1893, 531 ff., nos. 30, 47; Kuzikos, BCH loc. cit. no. 4). Dionusodoros, rare in Thasos before the 3rd century (Pouilloux, op. cit. i. 350), is found in the 4th century at Potidaia, (IG ii 2, 10109)Google Scholar and Abdera (SIG 3 207). Cf. also the list of such names from Thrace, , BSA 1918/1919, 8Google Scholar, and Rev. épigr. 1913, 271.

15 Aisopos (Sigeion, , DGE 731Google Scholar; Thrace (?), IG ii2. 8910), Gastron (Thessaly, patron. adj., Heuzey–Daumet 426), Geron (Macedonia, Demitsas 772; Tomoi, SIG 3 731. 47), Hegesidemos, Hipponikos (Kuzikos, , AM 1881, 45Google Scholar ; cf. IG xii. 8. 194), Moiris (Smyrna, , CIG ii 3140).Google Scholar Apparently unattested hereabouts: Arkesas, Iskholaos, Kratinos.

16 AM 1881, 259, no. 8; cf. CIL iii. 3877–9, 7063–7.

17 PIR 3 i. 415. 1312; CIL iii. 593–4, 7335.

18 CIL iii. 725.

19 Dumont–Homolle 432, 555, 571.

20 AM 1881, 257, no. 3.

21 CIL iii. 6977; cf. RA 1916, 341.

22 IGRR 816; Dumont–Homolle 432.

23 Pollio, Vitrasius, PIR iii. 558Google Scholar; Venuleius, , IG xii. 8. 174Google Scholar; Mindius, , CIL iii. 340Google Scholar; Vedius, , BCH 1893, 536, no. 2Google Scholar; Licinius, , CIL v. 877, vii. 660, iii, p. 873Google Scholar; Dumont–Homolle 524, and others.

24 CIL iii. 656 and others; CIG ii. 3665.

25 PIR iii. 492. Cf. 459, Rev. épigr. 1914, 260; AM 1907, 296; Dittenberger3 833. 10; IGRR 810.

26 Pius can be a nomen as well as the more usual cognomen; PIR iii. 100. Cf. PIR 2 iii. 68 and PIR iii. 492, where it occurs as part of a long name ending in Sosius Priscus.

27 PIR 2 ii. 1635 and 689.

28 For -us Iu- cf. CIL iii. 4585; Dumont–Homolle no. 6233 and p. 527; ÖJh 1898, 190; CIL iii. 1573, vi. 1520; IGRR 692; JHS 1907, 227, no. 2; Ann. épigr. 1900, 6 no. 19, 7 no. 23. These are all provincial governors with these letters in their names. For -us Ru- cf. Dumont–Homolle 523 f., 526; Ann. épigr. 1900, 6 no. 20; Arch.-ep. Mitt. 1894, 216 f., no. 118.

29 By first myself and then a kind helper sitting in a bosun's chair which was lowered from the top of the tower by apparatus provided by the Gallipoli fire-brigade, to whom I am deeply indebted.

30 By a kind helper on the top of a fire-ladder, who had to dodge an electric cable before he could reach the inscription.

31 CIL iii. 13086, 13900; Oikonomos no. 17 and the references there given; CIG ii, addenda, 2152 f.

32 For in Diocletian's name, see the index to IGRR.

33 BCH 1900, 167.

34 RE viii. 1. 193; JRS 1954, 21 ff.

35 BCH 1913, 94, no. 6.

36 RE loc. cit.

37 For the dedication to one deity of a statue of another see BCH 1914, 89; BSA 1950, 145.

38 IGRR 606; Dumont–Homolle 381, 535.