A Bosporan Cult Dedication
This short Greek dedication comes from the Phanagorian area on the Asian side of the Cimmerian Bosporus. It names Komosarye daughter of Gorgippos, wife of Pairisades, and preserves a vow to Sanerges and Astara inside the Bosporan royal formula.
The inscription belongs on the Scythian shelf as north Black Sea frontier evidence, not as a simple ethnic label. Its value is cultic and political: a Bosporan royal woman, local divine names, Phanagoria, Bosporos, Theodosia, Sindi, Maeotians, and Thateans all appear in four compact lines.
The translation below was made from the inspected Ancient Greek text of PHI Greek Inscriptions record PH183748 / CIRB 1015.
Translation
Komosarye, daughter of Gorgippos, wife of Pairisades, having made a vow, dedicated this to the strong divine Sanerges and to Astara, when Pairisades was archon of Bosporos and Theodosia and king over the Sindi, all the Maeotians, and the Thateans.
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This Good Works Translation was prepared for the Scythian shelf by the New Tianmu Anglican Church from the Ancient Greek inscription text printed below. The English is a new rendering from the Greek. PHI Greek Inscriptions was used as the source text, with the local HTML capture retained for verification.
The inscription is included for Bosporan, Sindian, Maeotian, Thatean, and north Black Sea cult context. It should not be used as a broad identity claim about Scythians, Sarmatians, Bosporans, Sindi, Maeotians, or any single people.
Prepared for the Good Works Library of the New Tianmu Anglican Church, 2026.
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Source Text: CIRB 1015 / PH183748
Ancient Greek source text from PHI Greek Inscriptions, CIRB 1015 / PH183748. Presented here for reference, study, and verification alongside the English translation above.
1 Κομοσαρύη Γοργίππου θυγάτηρ, Παιρισάδους [γ]υ̣νή, εὐξαμένη
ἀνέθηκε ἰσχυρῶι θειῶι Σανέργει καὶ Ἀστάραι ἄρχοντος Παιρισάδους
Βοσπόρου καὶ Θευδοσίης καὶ βασιλεύοντος [Σίν]δ̣ων καὶ Μαϊτῶν πά[ντων]
καὶ Θατέων.
Source Colophon
The source text was inspected from PHI Greek Inscriptions, CIRB 1015 / PH183748, identified by PHI as N. Black Sea -- Phanagoria, area of -- 349-310 BC -- IosPE II 346. The local source capture and extraction are preserved in the Scythian source archive as phi_183748_cirb_1015_ins18.html and phi_183748_cirb_1015_ins18_source.txt.
PHI prints restored letters in the word for wife and in the ethnonym Sindi. This translation renders εὐξαμένη ἀνέθηκε as a vow-dedication formula and keeps ἰσχυρῶι θειῶι Σανέργει close to the Greek as "the strong divine Sanerges." The dating formula is left as a Bosporan royal formula rather than expanded into a historical narrative.
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