V 225. Eski-Kermen.Inscribed panel, IX-XIIIth centuries C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Limestone. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.11.5, W.13.0, Th.unknown.

Additional description

Broken on all sides, except left (?). 

Place of Origin

Eski-Kermen. 

Find place

Eski-Kermen. 

Find context

Basilica. 

Find circumstances

1930, excavations of F.I. Schmit. 

Modern location

Unknown. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Lapidary; ornate pointy letters. Loop of rho is left open, elongated rho and stigma. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.5–4.5.

Text

Category

Unknown. 

Date

IX-XIIIth centuries C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Unpublished. 

Edition

ςλρ´(?).

Diplomatic

ΣΛΡ(?)

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
    <ab>
      <lb n="1"/><num value="136">ςλρ</num><note>?</note>.
   </ab>
   </div>

Translation

136 (?).

 

Commentary

The negative is preserved at the Photo Archive, Institute for History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences (II–2454; kindly brought to my attention by S.V. Kharitonov; see also Schmit 1932, fig. 63; Vinogradov 2004, 124).

The only possible Greek reading of the inscription is that it is number 136, with the reverse order of digits, which is, for example, typical of Bosporan epigraphy. To have letters suspended from the line of writing is typical of Late Byzantine minuscule.

 

Images

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