V 100. Cherson. Inscribed small stone circle, 1261–1262 C.E.

Monument

Type

Small circle. 

Material

Limestone. 

Additional description

Circular drilled limestone panel, with a cross on the front and star ornament of wavy lines on the back. About half is missing. 

Place of Origin

Cherson. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

Before 1872. 

Modern location

Unknown. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Lapidary. Lunate epsilon, З-shaped zeta (?). 

Text

Category

Unknown. 

Date

1261–1262 C.E. 

Dating criteria

Explicit date. 

Editions

L1. Latyshev 1896, 21. 

Edition

[ἔτους] ͵[ς]ψξ´
ΖΥΝΗΤΟΕ

Diplomatic

[......]ΨΞ
ΖΥΝΗΤΟΕ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/><date><supplied reason="lost">ἔτους</supplied> <num value="6770"><supplied reason="lost" precision="low">ς</supplied>ψξ</num></date> 
      <lb n="2"/><orig>ΖΥΝΗΤΟΕ</orig>
   </ab>
   </div> 
 
Apparatus criticus

1: ΨΞ Latyshev

Translation

[In the year 6]770 (?).

 

Commentary

The monument was exhibited at the Polytechnic Show in Moscow in 1872. Latyshev published the inscription on the basis of a transcription made by N.P. Kondakov.

1. The combination of psi-ksi makes sense only as a number, namely, as a year: 6760 since the creation, corresponding to 1261-1262 C.E. (cf. V 48).

2. If Kondakov's transcription contained mistakes, then we could speculate that in line 2 there might have been a word συνετός or ξυνετός.

 

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