V 225. Eski-Kermen. Inscribed panel, IX-XIIIth centuries C.E.
Monument
Type
Panel.
Material
Limestone.
Dimensions (cm)
H. 11.5, W. 13.0, Th. unknown.
Additional description
Broken on all sides, except left (?).
Place of Origin
Eski-Kermen.
Find place
Eski-Kermen.
Find context
Basilica.
Find circumstances
1930, excavations of F.I. Schmit.
Modern location
Unknown.
Institution and inventory
Unknown.
Autopsy
Non vidi.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Lapidary; ornate pointy letters. Loop of rho is left open, elongated rho and stigma.
Letterheights (cm)
2.5–4.5.
Text
Category
Unknown.
Date
IX-XIIIth centuries C.E.
Dating criteria
Palaeography.
Editions
Unpublished.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/><num value="136">ςλρ</num><note>?</note>.
</ab>
</div> Translation
136 (?).
Commentary
The negative is preserved at the Photo Archive, Institute for History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences (II–2454; kindly brought to my attention by S.V. Kharitonov; see also Schmit 1932, fig. 63; Vinogradov 2004, 124).
The only possible Greek reading of the inscription is that it is number 136, with the reverse order of digits, which is, for example, typical of Bosporan epigraphy. To have letters suspended from the line of writing is typical of Late Byzantine minuscule.
Images
© 2015 Andrey Vinogradov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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