V 107. St. George Monastery, cape Feolent.Building inscription (?) of an unknown, XIII–XVth centuries C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.13.0, W.15.0, Th.5.0.

Additional description

The front is smoothed over. It shows traces of a fielded panel, round in shape, painted light brown. Inside the fielded panel is a relief cross with flaring arms; the arm of the cross is decorated with patterns. Broken off on all sides. At present, the ends of both lines of text are lost (two letters in each line). 

Place of Origin

St. George Monastery, cape Feolent. 

Find place

Feolent, Cape. 

Find context

Chapel of 1896. 

Find circumstances

1896, survey of M.I. Skubetov. 

Modern location

Sevastopol, Crimea. 

Institution and inventory

National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, 34952. 

Autopsy

May 1999, August 2001, September 2002, September 2003, September 2004, September 2005, September 2006, September 2007. 

Epigraphic field 1

Position

Within the frame. 

Lettering

Lapidary. Letters are ornate, vertical hastae have a slight s-shaped curve. Alpha with slanting crossbar. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.0.

Epigraphic field 2

Position

In the lefthand corner of the frame. 

Lettering

See field 1. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.5.

Text

Category

Building inscription. 

Date

XIII–XVth centuries C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

L1. Latyshev1902, 68, № 14 (№ 1); 2. Vinogradov2011, 230–232, № 8.1, 7.2. 

Edition

1
[---]ς καὶ [---]
[---]ι ὁ ναὸς [---]
2
[ἐν] ἰν-
δ̣(ικτιῶνι) [..]

Diplomatic

1
[---]ΣΚΑΙ[---]
[---]ΙΟΝΑΟΣ[---]
2
[..]ΙΝ
.[··]

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="textpart" subtype="fragment" n="1"> <ab> <lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><w part="F">ς</w> καὶ <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> <lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><w part="F">ι</w> ὁ ναὸς <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> </ab> </div>
<div type="textpart" subtype="fragment" n="2"> <ab> <lb n="1"/><supplied reason="lost">ἐν</supplied> <date><expan><abbr>ἰν<lb n="2" break="no"/><unclear>δ</unclear></abbr><ex>ικτιῶνι</ex></expan> <num><gap reason="lost" quantity="2" unit="character"/></num></date> </ab> </div>

Translation

1

... and... church...

2

[in] the ... indiction.

 

Commentary

It would appear to be an inscription about the construction of a church, quite likely the very "chapel of the 1896", dated, on the basis of archaeological finds, to the Late Byzantine period (Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich 1900, 33, № 3). In the enclosure III, near the church, Skubetov excavated a similar monument in 1896 - a cross with flaring arms, within a circle (Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich 1898, 198).

Latyshev did not notice letters inscribed on the left narrow border. They probably contained the date of the building inscription.

 

Images

(cc)© 2015 Andrey Vinogradov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
You may download this inscription in EpiDoc XML. (This file should validate to theEpiDoc schema.)