V 121. Bakla.Inscription of –ephronos, The–, –oulenos, and others, XIII–XVth centuries C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.10.0, W.13.5, Th.5.5.

Additional description

Inset panel with carved inscription. Broken on all sides, except the right. 

Place of Origin

Bakla. 

Find place

Bakla. 

Find context

Foot of Bakla hill. 

Find circumstances

Before 1889, chance find of S. Avlakhov. 

Modern location

Unknown. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Inside the inset field. 

Lettering

Lapidary, bouletée, letters of varying heights, slightly leaning to the right. Kappa with free-standing vertical, lambda with capping horizontal bar. Ligature omicron-upsilon. Ligature omicron-upsilon. 

Letterheights (cm)

0.5–2.0.

Text

Category

Unknown. 

Date

XIII–XVth centuries C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

L1. Latyshev1896, 63, № 55. 

Edition

[---]
[---]εφρόνου, Θε-
[όδωρος?], [Πα?]ουλήνις Θε-
[οδ]όρου, Ἄνις (?) Σοτιρίκου,
[Ἄν?]ις Κυριακοῦ, Ἄνις (?)
5[Σοτη]ρίκου, Λεόντι[ς]
[Γρ]ιγορί[ου],
[---].

Diplomatic

[---]
[---]ΕΦΡΟΝΟΥΘΕ
[........]ΟΥΛΗΝΙΣΘΕ
[..]ΟΡΟΥΑΝΙΣ(?)ΣΟΤΙΡΙΚΟΥ
[..]ΙΣΚΥΡΙΑΚΟΥΑΝΙΣ(?)
5[....]ΡΙΚΟΥΛΕΟΝΤΙ[.]
[..]ΙΓΟΡΙ[..]
[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

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      <lb/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
      <lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="F">εφρόνου</seg>,
      Θε<lb n="2" break="no"/><supplied reason="lost" cert="low">όδωρος</supplied>, 
      <supplied reason="lost" cert="low">Πα</supplied>ουλήνις 
      Θε<lb n="3" break="no"/><supplied reason="lost">οδ</supplied>όρου,
      Ἄνις <certainty locus="value" match=".." cert="low"/>
      Σοτιρίκου,
      <lb n="4"/><supplied reason="lost" cert="low">Ἄν</supplied>ις
      Κυριακοῦ,
      Ἄνις <certainty locus="value" match=".." cert="low"/> 
      <lb n="5"/><supplied reason="lost">Σοτη</supplied>ρίκου,
      Λεόντι<supplied reason="lost">ς</supplied>
      <lb n="6"/><supplied reason="lost">Γρ</supplied>ιγορί<supplied reason="lost">ου</supplied>,
      <lb/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>.
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

1: ἐφ᾿ ὧνLatyshev
2: δούλην· ἰς δέLatyshev
3: ωρούων ἰςLatyshev
4: [...]ις Κυριακοῦ, ἀνισ-Latyshev
5: δούλην· ἰς δέ-Latyshev
6: γὰρLatyshev

Translation

[...], son of [...]ephronos, Theodore (?), [Pa]ulinis (?), son of Theodore, Anis, son of Soterikos, Anis, son of Kyriakos, Anis, son of Soterikos, Leontis, son of Gregory.

 

Commentary

The stone was bought by A.O. Kashpar in the village of Mangush (modern Prokhladnoye), taken to the museum, and thence sent to Latyshev for publication. It was found among the burial vaults of Bakla, along with a small pitcher, an axe, a small cross, a bead, a plank from a coffin, a fragment of a plow and burned wheat grains (Markevich 1889). The photograph published here is from the Photo Archive, Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences (Q.759.76).

Since there is no other content apart from given names and patronymics, the function of this inscription remains unclear. On the name Anis-Yanis-Ioannes, see commentary to V 108; on the name Soterikos, see commentary to V 160; on the name Kyriakos, see commentary to V 72; on the name Gregory, see commentary to V 27. The name Leontis is not attested in Crimea, but is known from synaxaria (see Delehaye 1902, 1119–1120). The third name, which is not fully preserved (-oulenis), could have been (Pa)ulinis, a variant of Paulinos.

 

Images

 Photograph of face

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