V 260. Caffa.Epitaph of Asiles, 1378 C.E.
Monument
Type
Panel.
Material
Unknown.
Additional description
On the front-carved six-petal rosette in a circle. Chipped at the bottom.
Place of Origin
Caffa.
Find place
Theodosia.
Find context
Fortress.
Find circumstances
10 May 1895.
Modern location
Unknown.
Institution and inventory
Unknown.
Autopsy
Non vidi.
Epigraphic field
Position
Around, above and on the right of the rosette.
Lettering
Lapidary; ornate letters, sometimes accentuated with serifs. Alpha and lambda with capping horizontal bar pointing left, lambda with shortened left diagonal. Ligatures: omicron-iota, upsilon-iota; abbreviations.
Text
Category
Epitaph.
Date
1378 C.E.
Dating criteria
Explicit date.
Editions
L1. Latyshev1896, 76.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/>Ἐκημήθη ὁ δοῦλος τοῦ <roleName><expan><abbr>θ</abbr><ex>εο</ex><abbr>ῦ</abbr></expan></roleName>
Ἀσίλης, υἱὸς τοῦ <unclear>Με</unclear>χάτου,
<lb n="2"/><date>ἔτους <num value="6887">ςωπζ</num>, <expan><abbr>μη</abbr><ex>νὸς</ex></expan> <rs type="month" ref="sep">Σεπτεβρίου</rs> <num value="23">κγ</num></date>.
</ab>
</div>Apparatus criticus
1-2: vice versoLatyshev
Translation
Fell asleep: a servant of God, Asiles, son of Mechatos (?), in the year 6887, on the 23rd of September.
Commentary
The photograph published here is preserved at the Photo Archive, Institute for History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences (Q.759.79/II–88328).
It is clear that the text was first inscribed around the rosette and then the rest - away from it, that is why we arrange lines differently than Latyshev.
1. On the formula, see Introduction IV.3.F.e.
1-2. It is possible that the letter-cutter simply forgot to carve the initial beta.
The shape of the rosette is similar to that on V 54 (Cherson, XIV-XVth century)
Images
© 2015 Andrey Vinogradov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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