V 168. Shury.Epitaph of Demetria, XIV–XVth centuries C.E.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Limestone. 

Additional description

On the front - small profiled arch. Broken on the top; the surface is weathered. 

Place of Origin

Shury. 

Find place

Kudrino. 

Find context

Ay-Kostandi Tract, cemetery. 

Find circumstances

1915-1916, survey of M.I. Skubetov. 

Modern location

Unknown. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Within the arch. 

Lettering

Lapidary; rows of letters are cut between incised lines. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.0.

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

XIV–XVth centuries C.E. 

Dating criteria

Archaeological context. 

Editions

L1. Latyshev1918, 34–35, № 2. 

Edition

[Ἐκοιμήθη]
[ἡ δούλη τ]οῦ θεοῦ
[Δ]ιμιτρία μηνὶ Νοεβρή[ῳ]
ἠς τὰ ιθ´.

Diplomatic

[........]
[.......]ΟΥΘΕΟΥ
[.]ΙΜΙΤΡΙΑΜΗΝΙΝΟΕΒΡΗ[.]
ΗΣΤΑΙΘ

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Apparatus criticus

1-2: Ἐκοιμήθη ἡ δούληLatyshevom.

Translation

Fell asleep: a servant of God, [D]emetria, on the 19th of November.

 

Commentary

Latyshev's edition is based on the estampage and drawing of Skubetov. The tables were never published.

1–2. On the formula, see Introduction IV.3.F.e.

3. The name Demetria (here Dimitria) is a feminine equivalent of the name Demetrios, attested in Gibson 1978, № 21; SEG 6.545; Feissel 1983, № 30, 70, 178; Bandy 1970, № 63.

3-4. Epitaphs that indicate only the day of the month, but not the year of death are not otherwise known at Shury.

 

(cc)© 2015 Andrey Vinogradov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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