A Pantikapaion Greek Inscription

This short building fragment from Pantikapaion belongs on the Scythian shelf because it places a Bosporan King Sauromates in a cultic setting centered on Ares. The surviving Greek appears to record repair of the temple of Ares and the cult image within it, though the restoration is damaged and must remain visibly provisional.

The translation below was made from the inspected Greek text captured from PHI Greek Inscriptions, CIRB 63 / PH182778.

Translation

[Tiberius Julius], King Sauromates, [friend of Caesar and] friend of the Romans, [pious], [repaired?] the temple of Ares and the [statue] in it, me[...]

Colophon

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 inspected Greek source text, with PHI Greek Inscriptions used as the source surface.

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: CIRB 63 / PH182778

Ancient Greek source text from PHI Greek Inscriptions, CIRB 63 / PH182778. Presented here for reference, study, and verification alongside the English translation above.

[— — Τιβ(έριος) Ἰούλιος]

[βασιλεὺς Σαυρο]μάτης

[φιλόκαισαρ καὶ] φιλορώ-

[μαιος, εὐσεβὴς] τὸν να-

[ὸν ἐπεσκεύασε? το]ῦ Ἄρεως

[καὶ τὸ ἐν αὐτῷ ἄγ]αλμα με

[— — — — — — — — — — —]

Source Colophon

The source text was inspected from PHI Greek Inscriptions, CIRB 63 / PH182778, Pantikapaion (Kerch), dated by PHI to 173-211 AD, with PHI noting IosPE II 47. The source capture is preserved in the Scythian source archive.

The inscription is fragmentary. PHI marks the royal titulature, the repair verb, and the cult-image wording as restored or uncertain; the translation therefore keeps brackets and a question mark rather than treating the restoration as complete stone text.

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