V 256. Sougdaia. Epitaph of an unknown woman, XIII–XVth century C.E.
Monument
Type
Unknown.
Material
Unknown.
Dimensions (cm)
H. 11.0, W. 13.0, Th. unknown.
Additional description
Broken at the bottom.
Place of Origin
Sougdaia.
Find place
Sudak.
Find context
"Temple of Diana."
Find circumstances
1928, excavations of A. Fomin.
Modern location
Unknown.
Institution and inventory
Unknown.
Autopsy
Non vidi.
Epigraphic field
Position
On the front.
Lettering
Lapidary. Wide mu.
Letterheights (cm)
1.8–3.5.
Text
Category
Epitaph.
Date
XIII–XVth century C.E.
Dating criteria
Archaeological context.
Editions
L1. Vinogradov, Dzhanov 2004, 416–417, № 9.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/>Ἐκυ<lb n="2" break="no"/>μήθη
<lb n="3"/>ἡ δού<lb n="4" break="no"/>λη <supplied reason="lost">τοῦ</supplied>
<lb n="5"/><supplied reason="lost"><roleName>θεοῦ</roleName> ἡ δεῖνα</supplied><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
</ab>
</div> Translation
Fell asleep: a servant of [God...]
Commentary
The inscription is known only from an estampage made in 1928 and preserved at the Manuscript Archive, Institute for History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences (P–II, д. 190, л. 2).
On the formula, see Introduction IV.3.F.e.
For the archaeological context, see Vinogradov, Dzhanov 2004.
Images
© 2015 Andrey Vinogradov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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