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Relief with Dedication by a Thiasos from Tanais
 
PIIS032103910008031-7-1
DOI10.31857/S032103910008031-7
Publication type Article
Status Published
Authors
Askold Ivanchik 
Affiliation:
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Institute of World History, RAS
Institut Ausonius, Bordeaux, France
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
Sergey Tokhtas’ev
Affiliation: Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS
Address: Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg
Journal nameVestnik drevnei istorii
Edition
Pages992-1008
Abstract

This article is a publication of an inscription from Tanais dating from the first half of the 2nd century AD; some of its fragments were found at the beginning of the 20th century and others during excavations in the 1990s. The inscription was cut on a large marble block and is a dedication by a thiasos. Twenty names have survived in the inscription (one of them appears twice). Some of them reflect Roman influence. Two of the persons mentioned at the beginning of the list were Roman citizens, as can be seen from their names: the citizenship of one of them can be traced back to the Julio-Claudian era and that of the other to the Trajan era, which determines the terminus post quem of the inscription. Two other persons were not Roman citizens, but their parents’ liking for Rome finds expression in the Latin names chosen for them. One of the names in question – Κικέρων – is unique and reflects not just Roman influence but familiarity with Latin literature. This provides rare evidence of how in the second half of the 1st century AD Roman influence in the Bosporus was not only political or military: there were admirers of Roman culture and literature living there, who obviously knew the Latin language. Many of the names in the inscription are Greek (Ζήνων, Πάνκαρπος, Στέφανος, Ἔρως (featured twice), Ποντικός, Μηνόφιλος, ῾Ηρακλείδης, Θεόφιλος, Πόθος). One of them (Μηνόφιλος), had apparently made its way to the Bosporus from Asia Minor. Two further names (Φαρνάκης, Ἀριαράθης / -ράμνης) are of Persian origin, but had been adopted from the South Pontic region. There are only three Sarmatian names (Αζιας, Αρδαρος, Οροατης), which is an unusually small number for inscriptions found in Tanais. One restored name is perhaps Jewish (Σαμου]ήλου); if another verstion of its restoration is correct, it would have been included in the group of Greek names. One further name (Παππος) belongs to the category of Lallnamen of unclear origin. Three of the members of the thiasos mentioned in this inscription have also been mentioned in two other thiasos inscriptions CIRB 1262 (two) and 1266 (one), on the basis of which all three inscriptions belong to the same chronological group.

Keywordsepigraphy, onomastics, North Pontic region, Bosporan Kingdom, Tanais, Sarmatians, Rome, Cicero
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Publication date25.12.2019
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