V 244. Partenit.Ownership inscription of Damianos, ca. 1427 C.E.

Monument

Type

Panel (?). 

Material

Limestone. 

Additional description

Round. Broken off on the right. 

Place of Origin

Partenit. 

Find place

Partenit. 

Find context

Basilica. 

Find circumstances

1871, excavations of D.M. Strukov. 

Modern location

Unknown. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. 

Epigraphic field

Position

In the centre and along the perimeter. 

Lettering

Lapidary. Lambda with protruding right hasta, tau with serifs. Ligature: lambda-iota; monogram. 

Text

Category

Ownership inscription. 

Date

Ca. 1427 C.E. 

Dating criteria

Explicit date. 

Editions

L1. Myts1991, 183–184, fig. 4.1; 1.1. Myts2009, 145–147. 

Edition

Δαμη(ανός),
ὁ̣ [μητρο]π̣ολίτης πόλεο(ς) Θε(οδώρους).

Diplomatic

ΔΑΜΗ
.[.....].ΟΛΙΤΗΣΠΟΛΕΟΘΕ

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Apparatus criticus

1: Δαμιαν(ὸς)Myts
2: ὁ: om.Myts

Translation

Damianos, metropolitan of the city of Theodoro.

 

Commentary

The drawing made by Strukov is preserved at the Manuscript Archive, Institute for History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences 1872. Д. 53. Л. 10.

1. The name Damianos is given in a monogram. This is probably the same Damianos as in V 241.

2. Myts identified this inscription as stauropegic, however, a stauropegic domain is always patriarchal, and in Crimea it is attested only at Yalta (Miklosich, Mueller 1862, 67–68, № 367) — rather we should consider the inscription as signifying the authority of a certain archiereus over that church: in the Middle and Late Byzantine epigraphy, the stauropegic locality is always stated (e.g., Grégoire 1929, № 298 (Megiste island in Lycia, 1637 C.E.)). Our inscription rather resembles Feissel, Philippidis-Braat 1985, № 86 from Patrae, dated to the same period (1426 C.E.), where the metropolitan's patronage of a church is expressed by his coat of arms and accompanying inscription.

For the historical context, see Myts 2009, 145–147 and commentary to V 239.

 

Images

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