A North Black Sea Sale-List Excerpt

This small Chersonesos dossier belongs in the Scythian library because it preserves the personal name Skythas in a civic land-sale list from the north Black Sea.

The text is not a Scythian ethnic statement by itself. It is a fragmentary civic and economic witness: among buyers in a Chersonesos land transaction, the name Hymnos appears repeatedly with Skythas as patronymic.

The translation below was made from inspected Ancient Greek text captured from PHI Greek Inscriptions, using PH339266 / SEG 40:615 as the fuller parallel for PH184598 / IosPE I² 403.

Translation

These men bought, one by one, from the [seller]:

Lysistratos, son of Eudromos; Lysistratos, son of Eudromos; Xanthos, son of Theokydes; [Xanth]os, son of Theoky[des]; [Her]ophil[os, son of Pr]omathidas; Hymnos, son of Skythas; [Sok]ritos, son of Dios[kouridas]; [Hymnos, son of Sky]thas; Theokles, son of Theogenes; [Hymno]s, son of Skythas; [...] son of [Dor?]ondas; Autokles, son of Auto[kles?]; [...] son of Pa[sion]; Ikas, son of Herakleidas [...]

Colophon

This Good Works Translation was prepared for the Scythian shelf by the New Tianmu Anglican Church from the Ancient Greek inscription excerpt printed below. The English is a new rendering from the Greek. PHI Greek Inscriptions was used as the source text, with local HTML captures retained for verification.

The translation is a new Good Works rendering from the inspected Greek source text.

Compiled and formatted for the Good Work Library by the New Tianmu Anglican Church, 2026.

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Source Text: IosPE I² 403 / SEG 40:615 Excerpt

Ancient Greek source text from PHI Greek Inscriptions, PH339266 / SEG 40:615, with PH184598 / IosPE I² 403 used as the paired witness. Presented here for reference, study, and verification alongside the English translation above.

[— — —]ιστα Νυ[μ]φοδώρου κ[αθ’] ἕνα· Λυσίστρατος Εὐ-

[δρόμο]υ, Λυσίστρ[ατο]ς Εὐδρό[μο]υ, Ξάνθος Θεοκύδεο[ς],

[Ξάνθ]ος Θεοκύδ[εος, Ἡρ]όφιλ[ος Πρ]ομαθίδα, Ὕμνος Σκύθ[α],

[Σώκρ]ιτος Διοσ[κουρίδα, Ὕμνος Σκύ]θα, Θεοκλῆς Θεογέν[ε]-

[ος, Ὕμνο]ς Σκύθα, [— — — — Δωρώ?]νδα, Αὐτοκλῆς Αὐτο-

[κλέος?, — —]ων Πο[— — — — — — —ω]ν Πασίωνος, Ἴκας Ἡρα-

[κλείδα — — —]

Source Colophon

The source text was inspected from PHI Greek Inscriptions, PH339266 / SEG 40:615, North Shore of the Black Sea, Chersonesos, ca. 270-250 BCE, identified by PHI as a sale of land plots on two fragments of an opisthographic marble plaque. PHI links this record to PH184598 / IosPE I² 403, Chersonesos, late 3rd/early 2nd century BCE, with references to IosPE I 226, IosPE IV 80, and ABSA 18 (1911/12), p. 123, no. 61.

The source captures are preserved in the Scythian source archive.

This dossier treats Σκύθα as the genitive of the personal name Skythas, "son of Skythas," because it appears in patronymic position in a name list. It does not claim that Hymnos was ethnically Scythian. The repeated Hymnos/Skythas entries may represent repeated purchases, repeated list positions, or restoration overlap; they should be checked against the printed VDI publication before the translation is treated as a final epigraphic edition.

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