A Chersonesos Name-List Fragment

This small Chersonesos fragment belongs in the Scythian library because it may preserve the personal name Skythas in a civic name list from the north Black Sea.

The text is damaged and should be handled lightly. PHI restores the second line as Θεόφιλος Σκ[ύθα?]; this dossier renders that as a probable patronymic, "Theophilos, son of Skythas?" while keeping the uncertainty visible.

The translation below was made from the inspected Greek text captured from PHI Greek Inscriptions, IosPE I² 581 / PH184776.

Translation

[...] son of Dio[nysios?]

Theophilos, son of Skythas?

Phanikos, son of Heroxenos.

Theophanes, son of H[...]

Omphalion, son of H[...]

Herakleidas, [son of ...]

[...]laka [...]

[...]odoros, [son of ...]

[... son of He]rakleides.

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 Greek. PHI Greek Inscriptions was used as the source text, with the local HTML capture 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 581

Ancient Greek source text from PHI Greek Inscriptions, IosPE I² 581 / PH184776. Presented here for reference, study, and verification alongside the English translation above.

[— —]ων Διο[νυσίου?]

Θεόφιλος Σκ[ύθα?]

Φανικὸς Ἡροξ[ένου]

Θεοφάνης Η[— — — —]

Ὀμφαλίων Η[— — —]

Ἡρ[α]κλείδα[ς τοῦ δεῖνος]

[— —]λακα[— — — — — —]

[— —]όδωρο[ς τοῦ δεῖνος]

[ὁ δεῖνα Ἡ]ρακλ[είδου]

Source Colophon

The source text was inspected from PHI Greek Inscriptions, IosPE I² 581 / PH184776, North Shore of the Black Sea, Chersonesos, dated by PHI to ca. 250-200 BCE. The source capture is preserved in the Scythian source archive.

PHI prints Θεόφιλος Σκ[ύθα?]; this dossier treats Σκ[ύθα?] as an uncertain restoration of the personal name Skythas in a patronymic position. It does not claim that Theophilos was ethnically Scythian.

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