Рукописна та книжкова спадщина України (Jan 2023)
New inscription on lead plate from Olbia as historical source
Abstract
The goal of the research. Historical (prosopographic, chronological) research of manuscript on a lead plate from Olbia (the first-published). Methodology. Typical scientific methods of auxiliary historical disciplines. Scientific novelty. A new magical manuscript from Olbia has been put into scientific circulation. New prosopographic materials concerning elite Olbia families are offered that have historical significance, in particular, palaeography, chronology, genealogy, prosopography. Also, due to the synchronization of the eponymous catalogue of Olbia, it became possible to use in the study of special, however, quite obvious methods of prosopographic interpretation, prosopographic dating and prosopographic reconstruction. Conclusions. The peculiarity of the manuscript is the presence in it of the names and patronymics of only representatives of the most powerful Olbian family of the Aristocratids, and of the secondary, but influential family of the Polyxenes, which belonged to the same clan as the Aristocratids. The magical manuscript made it pos sible to significantly supplement fragmentary information about the Polyxenes family, in that case, to form a representative fragment of its genealogy. In particular, monuments testifying to the activity of Polyxenes in the collegium of agoranomos and the coin magistracy were discovered. The manuscript also provided an opportunity to clarify a fragment of the genealogical branch of the most influential Olbian family of the Aristocratids. New historical (prosopographical) information was ob tained about one of the protagonists of the famous decree in honour of Protogenes, a citizen of Aristocratus. He was the son of the eponym of Olbia in 293 BC, Damas Aristokratous. Being in his old age, Aristocratus Damasius, together with the young Protogenes, took part in the embassy to the Saiyan king Saitafarn approximately 260-250 BC. According to prosopography, the manuscript is dated approximately 288-268 BC.
