V 100. Cherson.Inscribed small stone circle, 1261–1262 C.E.
Monument
Type
Small circle.
Material
Limestone.
Additional description
Circular drilled limestone panel, with a cross on the front and star ornament of wavy lines on the back. About half is missing.
Place of Origin
Cherson.
Find place
Sevastopol (Chersonesos).
Find context
Unknown.
Find circumstances
Before 1872.
Modern location
Unknown.
Institution and inventory
Unknown.
Autopsy
Non vidi.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Lapidary. Lunate epsilon, З-shaped zeta (?).
Text
Category
Unknown.
Date
1261–1262 C.E.
Dating criteria
Explicit date.
Editions
L1. Latyshev1896, 21.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/><date><supplied reason="lost">ἔτους</supplied> <num value="6770"><supplied reason="lost" precision="low">ς</supplied>ψξ</num></date>
<lb n="2"/><orig>ΖΥΝΗΤΟΕ</orig>
</ab>
</div>Apparatus criticus
1: ΨΞLatyshev
Translation
[In the year 6]770 (?).
Commentary
The monument was exhibited at the Polytechnic Show in Moscow in 1872. Latyshev published the inscription on the basis of a transcription made by N.P. Kondakov.
1. The combination of psi-ksi makes sense only as a number, namely, as a year: 6760 since the creation, corresponding to 1261-1262 C.E. (cf. V 48).
2. If Kondakov's transcription contained mistakes, then we could speculate that in line 2 there might have been a word συνετός or ξυνετός.
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