In:
Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia, Brill, Vol. 25, No. 2 ( 2019-12-09), p. 205-219
Abstract:
This article contains a re-publication of a verse epitaph found in Neapolis Scythica ( SEG 53, 775). After correcting a number of readings and restorations of the editio princeps , the author demonstrates that lines 4-8 contain a description of the deceased Argotas and not of King Skiluros, as the scholars publishing the inscription had suggested. There are no grounds for treating the φιλο[φροσύνη] Ἑλλάνων mentioned in the text as evidence of Argotas’ Greek origin. Thus there is no reason for viewing him as a figure similar to Posideos, son of Posideos, known to us from Neapolis epigraphy. The man buried here was a representative of the Scythian nobility, who could be probably identified as the husband of the Bosporan queen Kamasarya mentioned in one of the inscriptions found in Pantikapaion ( CIRB 75).
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0929-077X
,
1570-0577
DOI:
10.1163/15700577-12341350
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
Brill
Publication Date:
2019
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2069374-6
SSG:
6,14
SSG:
8
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