Greek and Latin Inscriptions from Sinope and Environs 9781463220242

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Greek and Latin Inscriptions from Sinope and Environs

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Greek and Latin Inscriptions from Sinope and Environs

David Robinson

1 gorgia* press 2009

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ISBN 978-1-60724-511-7

ISSN 1935-6854

Extract from The American Journal ofAjrchaeology, vol. 9 (1905).

Printed in the LTnited States of America

American of at

[/x] éSovros Miôpaêari/ç

MIGPAAATHS

'X.oprjyiwv as àcn-wo/xoç occurs in W. Jahrb.

f . kl. Phil.

V , p. 491, no. 59, and X.opr)v TOV Aew/iéBoi'toç

Suppl.

ibid. no. 60,

which has the same symbol as our vase-handle, the name of the fabricant being EùcuWtoç.

MlOpaSdrrjs as the name of

the fabricant occurs in Becker, Mélanges p. 485, no. 14 ; iV. Jahrb. f . kl. Phil.

Gréco-Romains,

T,

Suppl. I V , p. 465, nos. 4, 5 ;

p. 466, no. 1 2 ; p. 480, no. 26 a ; ibid. Suppl. V , p. 478, no. 11. T h e combination of these two names has not previously been found, so far as I know.

B u t all three names were known in

Sinope (cf. Nos. 31, 40, and Strabo X I I , 5 4 5 ) .

Hence it may

be we have here the stamp of a Sinopean manufacturer. 8. An oblong stamp:

length, 0.05 m . ;

Letters, 0.004 m. in height.

width, 0.015 m.

T o the right a dolphin in the

claws of an eagle, the same symbol as in No. 1. ETIENAIMQ P I 0

hTL Ti]/Xft)/3tOÇ

N. Jahrb. f . kl. Phil. Suppl. V , p. 478, no. 13, from Olbia, and ibid. Suppl. X , p. 27, no. 9, from Kertch, are identical. The symbol is also the same, but we can draw no argument from that, since it occurs on coins of Olbia as well as of Sinope. F o r the omission of CI TOC K VVI 6eu> 'Iipa/cXeZ j rovSe fia>fibv | 'lepo-

| EUX>?? X^P iV I aveOrjice. I give the correct text from my copy and squeeze. It is not surprising to find a cult of Heracles at Sinope, for Autolyeus, its mythical founder, was a member of the expedition of Heracles against the Amazons (Plut. Luc. 23 ; Appian, Mithr. 83; Apoll. Rhod. II, 9 5 9 ; Val. Flaccus, Y , 1 1 6 ; Hyginus, Fab. X I Y ) . And it was Heracles who took Sinope and established Greeks in it, cf. KOVSOol eii^dfievoi 30. Syllogos, ibid. p. 44, no. 1. 6ea> | 'H\io\oyiq> AeajfieSmv is known as a Sinopean name. Atu/xeSmy or Acofiebcov is not. Phlogius was a companion of Autolycus, the mythical founder of Sinope (cf. Plut. Luc. 23 ; Apoll. Rhod. II, 956 ; Yal. Flaccus, V, 115 ; Hyginus, Fab. X I Y ; Anon. Peripl. Pont. Eux. sec. 22 = Müller, G-eogr. G-raec. Min. I, p. 407 ; Ps. Scymnus, Orbis Descriptio, 945 = Müller, op. cit. p. 236). 32. Syllogos, ibid. p. 47. Fragment of architrave built into wall of the acropolis near No. 33. B ] oiWo? M o v a i . . . . The name is probably to be restored as Botaicos, which occurs in oriental inscriptions (cf. Dittenberger, Orient. Grr. Insc. 20, 26, 27, 29). 33. Syllogos, ibid. p. 4 7 ; Le Bas et Waddington, Voyage Arch. I l l , 1814; Hommaire de Hell, Voyage en Turquie et en Perse, I Y , p. 350, pi. xii, 2. ov e/c rSiv ISi'wv aved-q/cev /cal ttj 7raT/)t'8[t] ¿[¿a rou] T/3o[^>e]&>? ai)Tov Aiiciviov Xpvcroyovov 'OXv

INSCRIPTIONS

FROM

SINOPE

307

34. Built into the north wall, near No. 36, an architrave upside down, with the following inscription. Length, 1.85 m. ; width, 0.58 m. Letters, 0.06 in. in height. Broken at both ends.

jlQN 1< AI A Y T O Y Z M E T A T Q N Z T T E I P Q K j O èeîva àvédrjKe TOÙÇ «IBVAS ek TO 7repuTTvXjiov, ical avrovs ¡¿erà TWV aireipoK [e(f>d\