Two inscriptions published in this paper were unearthed in Phanagoria at the same place where the other two inscriptions published in the VDI were found (VDI. 2006. № 1. P. 155–172). One of them tells about the restoration of a portico destroyed in an unknown war. It is dated back to 517 of the Bosporan Era (=220 AD) and is the first to mention νησαvρχης a term which the author considers equivalent to οJ εjπι; τη’ ς νηvσου of Bosporan inscriptions. The second document is an epitaph on the pedestal of the statue of Hypsikratia, wife of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus. She is called here by a man’s name Hypsikrates, which finds its explanation in Plutarch (Pomp. 32). Hypsikratia probably died during a revolt against Mithridates in Phanagoria in 63 BC, known from Appian (App. Mithr. 108).
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