V 230. Mountainous Crimea (?).Epitaph of unknown, XIV–XVth centuries C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Limestone. 

Additional description

Inset panel. Broken on all sides except the right. 

Place of Origin

Mountainous Crimea (?). 

Find place

Unknown. 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

Unknown. 

Modern location

Moscow, Russia. 

Institution and inventory

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, no inventory number. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Lapidary; pointy elongated letters. Theta with extended horizontal. Ligature mu-epsilon; superscript siglum, accent mark (?). 

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

XIV–XVth centuries C.E. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

Unpublished. 

Edition

[Ἐκοι]μήθ[η]
[ὁ δοῦ]λ(ο)ς τοῦ
[θ(εο)ῦ ὁ δεῖνα---]

Diplomatic

[....]ΜΗΘ[.]
[....]ΛΣΤΟΥ
[........---]

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/><supplied reason="lost">Ἐκοι</supplied>μήθ<supplied reason="lost">η</supplied>
      <lb n="2"/><supplied reason="lost">ὁ</supplied> 
      <expan><abbr><supplied reason="lost">δοῦ</supplied>λ</abbr><ex>ο</ex><abbr>ς</abbr></expan>
      τοῦ
      <lb n="3"/><supplied reason="lost"><roleName><expan><abbr>θ</abbr><ex>εο</ex><abbr>ῦ</abbr></expan></roleName>
      ὁ δεῖνα</supplied><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
   </ab>
   </div>

Translation

Fell asleep: a servant of [God...]

 

Commentary

The inscription was identified by A.A. Agafonov, whose photo is published here and is our only source of information about the inscription. I was not able to find it in the collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Its physical characteristics are akin to tombstones from Mountainous Crimea.

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

 

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.)