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. Latyshev 1896, 76. 

Edition

Ἐκημήθη ὁ δοῦλος τοῦ θ(εο)ῦ Ἀσίλης, υἱὸς τοῦ Μ̣ε̣χάτου,
ἔτους ͵ςωπζ´, μη(νὸς) Σεπτεβρίου κγ´.

Diplomatic

ΕΚΗΜΗΘΗΟΔΟΥΛΟΣΤΟΥΘΥΑΣΙΛΗΣΥΙΟΣΤΟΥ..ΧΑΤΟΥ
ΕΤΟΥΣΣΩΠΖΜΗΣΕΠΤΕΒΡΙΟΥΚΓ

EpiDoc (XML)

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Apparatus criticus

1-2: vice verso Latyshev

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

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