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Last Updated on 14 Mar 2017

Author: Alexandru Avram

CAPInv. 1303: U-BSR-003

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Black Sea Region
ii. Region North coast of the Black Sea
iii. Site Iluraton

II. NAME

i. Association with unknown name U-BSR-003

III. DATE

i. Date(s) m. ii AD

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) CIRB 967 (m. ii AD).
Note See also: GRA II 37
Online Resources CIRB 967 and AGRW ID 7725
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek fragmentary tombstone.
i.c. Physical format(s) Fragmentary limestone stele.
ii. Source(s) provenance Iluraton (excavations)

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The only argument for the tombstone belonging to an association is that the deceased is called ὁ ἴδ[ιος] [ἀ]δελφός, ho id[ios] [a]delphos (CIRB 967, ll. 1-2). For this formula, see also CIRB 104 from Pantikapaion, which is surely a thiasotic record, CAPInv. 1296). But since the monument is fragmentary, it is not clear whether ἀδελφός, adelphos, ‘brother’, has a religious sense here.
iii. Bibliography Harland, P.A. (2014), Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations, and Commentaries. II. North Coast of the Black Sea, Asia Minor. Berlin, New York: 37.
Jajlenko, V.P. (2010), Tysjacheletnij Bosporskij Rejkh [A Thousand Year Bosporan Reich (sic)]. Moscow: 537-8.
Kreuz, P.-A. (2012), Die Grabreliefs aus dem Bosporanischen Reich. Leuven: 952, no. 1172.
Ustinova, Y. (1999), The Supreme Gods of the Bosporan Kingdom. Celestial Aphrodite and the Most High God. Leiden: 198.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note All depends on the sense of the word ἀδελφός, adelphos (see XII.i. Comments).