V 121. Bakla. Inscription of –ephronos, The–, –oulenos, and others, XIII–XVth centuries C.E.
Monument
Type
Panel.
Material
Limestone.
Dimensions (cm)
H. 10.0, W. 13.5, Th. 5.5.
Additional description
Inset panel with carved inscription. Broken on all sides, except the right.
Place of Origin
Bakla.
Find place
Bakla.
Find context
Foot of Bakla hill.
Find circumstances
Before 1889, chance find of S. Avlakhov.
Modern location
Unknown.
Institution and inventory
Unknown.
Autopsy
Non vidi.
Epigraphic field
Position
Inside the inset field.
Lettering
Lapidary, bouletée, letters of varying heights, slightly leaning to the right. Kappa with free-standing vertical, lambda with capping horizontal bar. Ligature omicron-upsilon. Ligature omicron-upsilon.
Letterheights (cm)
0.5–2.0.
Text
Category
Unknown.
Date
XIII–XVth centuries C.E.
Dating criteria
Palaeography.
Editions
L1. Latyshev 1896, 63, № 55.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>
<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="F">εφρόνου</seg>,
Θε<lb n="2" break="no"/><supplied reason="lost" cert="low">όδωρος</supplied>,
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low">Πα</supplied>ουλήνις
Θε<lb n="3" break="no"/><supplied reason="lost">οδ</supplied>όρου,
Ἄνις <certainty locus="value" match=".." cert="low"/>
Σοτιρίκου,
<lb n="4"/><supplied reason="lost" cert="low">Ἄν</supplied>ις
Κυριακοῦ,
Ἄνις <certainty locus="value" match=".." cert="low"/>
<lb n="5"/><supplied reason="lost">Σοτη</supplied>ρίκου,
Λεόντι<supplied reason="lost">ς</supplied>
<lb n="6"/><supplied reason="lost">Γρ</supplied>ιγορί<supplied reason="lost">ου</supplied>,
<lb/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line"/>.
</ab>
</div> Apparatus criticus
1: ἐφ᾿ ὧν Latyshev
2: δούλην· ἰς δέ Latyshev
3: ωρούων ἰς Latyshev
4: [...]ις Κυριακοῦ, ἀνισ- Latyshev
5: δούλην· ἰς δέ- Latyshev
6: γὰρ Latyshev
Translation
[...], son of [...]ephronos, Theodore (?), [Pa]ulinis (?), son of Theodore, Anis, son of Soterikos, Anis, son of Kyriakos, Anis, son of Soterikos, Leontis, son of Gregory.
Commentary
The stone was bought by A.O. Kashpar in the village of Mangush (modern Prokhladnoye), taken to the museum, and thence sent to Latyshev for publication. It was found among the burial vaults of Bakla, along with a small pitcher, an axe, a small cross, a bead, a plank from a coffin, a fragment of a plow and burned wheat grains (Markevich 1889). The photograph published here is from the Photo Archive, Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences (Q.759.76).
Since there is no other content apart from given names and patronymics, the function of this inscription remains unclear. On the name Anis-Yanis-Ioannes, see commentary to V 108; on the name Soterikos, see commentary to V 160; on the name Kyriakos, see commentary to V 72; on the name Gregory, see commentary to V 27. The name Leontis is not attested in Crimea, but is known from synaxaria (see Delehaye 1902, 1119–1120). The third name, which is not fully preserved (-oulenis), could have been (Pa)ulinis, a variant of Paulinos.
Images
© 2015 Andrey Vinogradov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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