V 325. Phanagoreia.Invocation of Kyriakos.

Monument

Type

Panel. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.35.0.

Additional description

Unknown. 

Place of Origin

Phanagoreia. 

Find place

Sennoy. 

Find context

East, necropolis, second trench, near the "extended soil heap". 

Find circumstances

1853, excavations of K.R. Begichev. 

Modern location

Unknown. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown, I. 

Autopsy

May 1999, September 2004, September 2008. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Graffito (?). 

Text

Category

Invocative inscription. 

Date

Unknown. 

Dating criteria

Not applicable. 

Editions

L1. Gerts1876, 86; 1.1. Latyshev1896, 113–114, № 104; 1.2. Vinogradov2010a, 158-159. 

Edition

Σ
Κ(ύρι)ε, βοήθη τὸν
δοῦλον σοῦ Κυρηα-
κὸν ναύκλη[ρ]ο[ν] καὶ
5[τ]ο͂ν ναυτο͂ν ὅλων (καὶ)
Γεωργήου (ἀμα)ρτολοῦ(?)
Ρ

Diplomatic

Σ
ΚΕΒΟΗΘΗΤΟΝ
ΔΟΥΛΟΝΣΟΥΚΥΡΗΑ
ΚΟΝΝΑΥΚΛΗ[.]Ο[.]ΚΑΙ
5[.]ΟΝΝΑΥΤΟΝΟΛΩΝ
ΓΕΩΡΓΗΟΥΡΤΟΛΟΥ
Ρ

EpiDoc (XML)

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Apparatus criticus

1: [ΙΣ. Χ]Σ.Latyshev
3-4: Κυριακὸν τὸνGerts
5-6: τὸν ναύτην...Gerts; [ἀμ]α[ρ]τ{ομ}ωλόν, (υ)ἱ(ὸν ?) Γεωργ(ίο)υLatyshev

Translation

Lord, help your servant Kyriakos, a captain, and all sailors, and George, a sinner.

 

Commentary

In preparing his edition, Latyshev relied on the transcription of Gerts, where several letterforms were incorrectly represented. It was Gerts who dated the inscription to "Christian times" - but due to the lack of images (drawing or photograph), it is not possible to say anything more precise about the date.

2. On the formula, see Introduction IV.3.E.a.

3. On the name Kyriakos (here Kyreakos), see commentary to V 72.

4-5. Invocations of sailors are relatively common in Byzantine epigraphy: they are often associated with a special venerated place (see Kourtzian 2000, 135–200).

6. George (here Georgeos), mentioned separately from the sailors, was probably the author of the inscription.

 

Images

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