V 256. Sougdaia.Epitaph of an unknown woman, XIII–XVth century C.E.

Monument

Type

Unknown. 

Material

Unknown. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.11.0, W.13.0, Th.unknown.

Additional description

Broken at the bottom. 

Place of Origin

Sougdaia. 

Find place

Sudak. 

Find context

"Temple of Diana." 

Find circumstances

1928, excavations of A. Fomin. 

Modern location

Unknown. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Lapidary. Wide mu. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.8–3.5.

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

XIII–XVth century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Archaeological context. 

Editions

L1. Vinogradov, Dzhanov2004, 416–417, № 9. 

Edition

Ἐκυ-
μήθη
ἡ δού-
λη [τοῦ]
5[θεοῦ ἡ δεῖνα---]

Diplomatic

ΕΚΥ
ΜΗΘΗ
ΗΔΟΥ
ΛΗ[...]
5[..........---]

EpiDoc (XML)

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   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/>Ἐκυ<lb n="2" break="no"/>μήθη
      <lb n="3"/>ἡ δού<lb n="4" break="no"/>λη <supplied reason="lost">τοῦ</supplied>
      <lb n="5"/><supplied reason="lost"><roleName>θεοῦ</roleName> ἡ δεῖνα</supplied><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
   </ab>
   </div>

Translation

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

 

Commentary

The inscription is known only from an estampage made in 1928 and preserved at the Manuscript Archive, Institute for History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences (P–II, д. 190, л. 2).

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

For the archaeological context, see Vinogradov, Dzhanov 2004.

 

Images

 Photograph of face 1(from ??)

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