V 235. Laspi. Epitaph of Mary, XIII–XVIIIth centuries C.E.

Monument

Type

Casket-shaped tombstone. 

Material

Limestone. 

Additional description

Unknown. 

Place of Origin

Laspi. 

Find place

Laspi. 

Find context

Littoral settlement (territory of modern pioneer camp "Laspi"), necropolis. 

Find circumstances

1833, survey of F. Dubois de Montpéreux. 

Modern location

Unknown. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Right half of the front. 

Lettering

Lapidary; minuscule letters. 

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

XIII–XVIIIth centuries C.E. 

Dating criteria

Type of gravestone, script. 

Editions

Unpublished. 

Edition

Ἐκημήθη [ἡ δούλη]
τοῦ θ(εο)ῦ [Μα-]
ρήα τοῦ [---].

Diplomatic

ΕΚΗΜΗΘΗ[......]
ΤΟΥΘΥ[..-]
ΡΗΑΤΟΥ[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

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   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/>Ἐκημήθη <supplied reason="lost">ἡ δούλη</supplied>
      <lb n="2"/>τοῦ <roleName><expan><abbr>θ</abbr><ex>εο</ex><abbr>ῦ</abbr></expan></roleName> 
      <supplied reason="lost">Μα</supplied><lb n="3" break="no"/>ρήα τοῦ <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>. 
   </ab>
   </div> 

Translation

Fell asleep: [a servant] of God, [Ma]rea, daughter of...

 

Commentary

We owe the knowledge of this inscription and of its archaeological context to A.V. Ivanov (see also Ivanov 2004, 62). The only source of information on the inscription is a drawing of F. Dubois de Montpéreux (1843, atl. sér., IV, pl. 27, fig. 84; Dubois de Montpereux 1846, 238). The cemetery, from which it comes, is dated on the basis of archaeological finds to the XII-XVth centuries (Makhnyova 1968, 53). There remains a possibility that the inscription is post-Byzantine, but Late Byzantine parallels for the monuments of this type are known in Mountainous Crimea (V 126, V 131).

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

2–3. The name Mary is also attested in V 62, V 209, V 227, V 343.

 

Images

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