V 142. Laki. Epitaph of Patrikios, 1310 C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall block. 

Material

Limestone. 

Additional description

The front is worked with toothed chisel, a cross is scratched on the left side, in the right top corner there are drawings. The surface is chipped in places. 

Place of Origin

Laki. 

Find place

Laki. 

Find context

Holy Trinity church, northern wall. 

Find circumstances

Summer of 1898, survey of A.L. Bertye-Delagard. 

Modern location

Unknown. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Lapidary. Alphas with loop, slanting crossbar, and capping horizontal bar pointing left; mu with T-shaped and Y-shaped middle. Ligature: omicron-upsilon. 

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

1310 C.E. 

Dating criteria

Explicit date. 

Editions

L1. Latyshev 1898, 232, № 64б. 

Edition

Ἐκοιμήθ(η) [ὁ] δοῦ[λος]
τοῦ θ(εο)ῦ Πατρίκις
μη(νὶ) μαΐῳ [εἰ]ς τ(ὰ) η̣´,
ἔτι ͵ςωιη´, ἰν(δικτιῶνος) η´.

Diplomatic

ΕΚΟΙΜΗΘ[.]ΔΟΥ[...]
ΤΟΥΘΥΠΑΤΡΙΚΙΣ
ΜΗΜΑΙΩ[..]ΣΤ.
ΕΤΙΣΩΙΗΙΝΗ

EpiDoc (XML)

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      Πατρίκις
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      <lb n="4"/>ἔτι <num value="6818">ςωιη</num>, <expan><abbr>ἰν</abbr><ex>δικτιῶνος</ex></expan> <num value="8">η</num></date>.
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Apparatus criticus

3: εἰ]ς τ(ὰ) η´: om. Latyshev
4: ἔτ(ους) Latyshev; ΜΒ Latyshev

Translation

Fell asleep: a servant of God, Patrikios, on the 8th of May, in the year 6818, in the 8th indiction.

 

Commentary

Latyshev used an estampage made by Bertye-Delagard in preparing his publication. The photograph published here is currently at the Photo Archive, Institute for History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences (II–44317, О.1529.66).

1–2. On the formula, see Introduction IV.3.F.e.

3. The name Patrikios (here Patrikis) is otherwise unknown in Crimea, but is well known from synaxaria (see Delehaye 1902, 1148) and Byzantine inscriptions.

4. Dating by indiction is attested at Laki in another inscription: V 143

 

Images

 Photograph of face 1(from ??)

(cc) © 2015 Andrey Vinogradov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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