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NEW GREEK GRAFFITI IN ST. SOPHIA OF CONSTANTINOPLE IN THE ARCHIVE OF ROBERT VAN NICE Part II. Preliminary observation1
Впервые публикуются 25 греческих граффити, найденных в соборе Св. Софии в Константинополе в 1969 году Робертом и Барбарой ван Найс и сейчас хранящихся в виде карандашных заметок на кальке в архиве Роберта ван Найса в Вашингтоне (DOP, Washington).
Ключевые слова: греческие граффити, собор Софии Константинопольской, архив Роберта ван Найса
This article continues the articles Evdokimova 2013 and Evdokimova 2013a.
1.-6. Box 11, graffiti (9th folder), sheet of paper A4, graphite pencil. The location in the cathedral is unknown. Paleography: letters are majuscule. Orthography: in the third inscription the genitive case flexion was put after the flexion of nominative case.
1 This article was written within the frame of RFBR №NK 13-06-00086\13
1. £L^/ OLT.A..L
2. a
3. AOANALIOL8 A^avaaLou
Of Athanasios
4. HI CBM....t
5. ATL0oaLOXLOp
6. nLTLT.CeL/KaL.T
7.-9. Box 11, graffiti (9th folder), sheet of paper A4, graphite pencil. Paleography: letters are minuscule.
1. 0£
A ...08.A Exo^ ATCC |aap8Ca 0[e]e...
£TO^
Mapouaa2 God... year ... Marusa
2 name is mentionned in the inscription from Arabia Gerasa, 5th century. Pal 344, 1
2. XAaK/co&uo
3. NAZAPOS nAni.S NaCapog3 ndmag (?)
Nazar Papius
10. Box 11, graffiti (9th folder), sheet of paper A4, graphite pencil. This graffito was found in the North gallery, east bay graffito in filled window north of apse. This rubbing is noted in the file on graffiti and in the folder of rubbings of graffiti Feb. 1968. Paleography: the letters are majuscule. Orthography: “n” instead of “ei” in the «[B]OH0H».
3 More usual form of this name is «NaZ&pioq»
0£ OH0H AOYA ovIHH
0[£]£ [p]o^0£L [xov] 80OA0V [GOU]
God, help Your servant
11. Box 11, graffiti (10th folder), sheet of paper A4, graphite pencil. Graffito is located in the gallery. Paleography: the letters are minuscule. Orthography: “i” instead of “n” in the «91X1x8».
+ a^iAixB^
A^tA^xou |a Of Aphilitus
12. Box 11, graffiti (11th folder), sheet of paper A4, graphite pencil. Graffito is situated in the gallery in the north-west exempla. a. On a right stone the same name is in the upper right and left corners. b. The same one is above the upper left corner of a left stone. Paleography: “e” lunar, other letters are minuscule. Orthography: “y” instead of “v” in the “yiou”. The case of the article is not the same with the “yiou”.
tov yiou ywpEoT tov uiov rwpeou son of Goreus (?)
13. Box 11, graffiti (11th folder), sheet of paper A4, graphite pencil. This graffito is upside-down like the three that were published by us in another articles (Evdokimova 2011, 8, 9-10; Evdokimova 2013, 6). Paleography: “c” lunar, other letters are majuscule. Orthography: “o” instead of “ro” in the « OOTIOC »
OOTIOC OAPAC OwTiog Oapdg Photius Pharas
14. Box 11, graffiti (11th folder), sheet of paper A4, graphite pencil. Graffito is located in the west gallery, south end. Middle Greek Paleography: letters are minuscule, two first of them as a christcross at the beginning are traced with double lines.
+ Xqictto^ Eapa + Xqlctto^ Eapa[w0] f Christ Sabaoth
15. Box 11, graffiti (11th folder), sheet of paper A4, graphite pencil. Graffito was found in the gallery, in the north-east exedra. Paleography: “e” lunar, other letters are minuscule Orthography: “i” instead of “ei” in the «p..0i», “i” instead of “u” in the «nip».
Kep.,01. K
...£K...CT.V TOV
5oAo..o..iAa. N to nip TaKw/u.
K(upi)e po^0ei
..........tov aov
SouAo[v] [Mo]uv8[Xav (?) to nop t&xw or to nop Taxei
Lord help Your servant Mundilan. I’m decomposing with fire. Or the fire burn.
16.-18. Box 11, graffiti (11th folder), sheet of paper A4, graphite pencil. Graffito is located in the gallery, in the north-east pier. Paleography: letters are minuscule. Orthography: “o” instead of “ro” in the « 0eoSop», “n” instead of “i” in the «NHKHTaC».
1. 0eo5op ^opon..yCT..vu 0eo5wp Oopon Theodor Phorsi
2. KC TH^oe/0ei (?)
K(upio)g Ti^n0£i
3. tNHKHTaC NiK^Tag Nikitas
19.-22. Box 11, graffiti (11th folder), sheet of paper A4, graphite pencil. Graffiti were found in the gallery, in the north-east center bay. Paleography: in the first and the second inscriptions the letters are majuscule, in the third they are minuscule. Orthography: “u” instead of “n” in the «Bou..», “i” instead of “n” in the «SoAi»
1. ABEAYK
2. KOEA^
3. Ke Bou.ip ...5o..Ai K(upi)e por][0ei t^v] 5o[u]An Lord help Your servant...
23 Box 11, graffiti (11th folder), sheet of paper A4, graphite pencil. Graffito is located in the west gallery, on 21st column. Paleography: “e” and “o” lunar, other letters are majuscule. Orthography: “u” instead of “ei” in the «BOH0Y»
<Tc>s. i/
on '
/ m-j S _ j : ■'
h Qi/fc'i
06....AI KEBOH0YCoN K(upi)e po^0u oov God
Lord help Your.
24.-25. Box 11, graffiti (11th folder), sheet of paper A4, graphite pencil. Graffiti are situated in the gallery, in the south-west bay, 17th column. Paleography: “e” lunar. mix of the majuscule and minuscule letters.
BOH
IalwOH
Ao...wiywNT
por|[0ei]
help
KE В ЛешШ"
BETIO
ToP'
Y
K(upl)e p[or]0ei]
Ле^ t(6v)
BeTlOTOQ(6v) (?)
Lord help Your servant Leon Betiotor
The texts of the presented graffiti contain no dates. That’s why their dating is problematic, we can date them only very approximately: judging by their paleographic traits. They appear to have been created in the X-XTTT century. The names mentioned in them are both usual, like A0avaoio^ (in graffito 3), Фютю<; (in graffito 8) 0ео8юр (in the 16th graffito), NiK^xa^ (in the 18th grafito) etc., and unusual, like Mapouca (in the 7th graffito) or [Mo]uv8(^av (in the 15th graffito). But both groups of the names don’t give us opportunity to attribute them to any historical person. The 13th graffito is traced upside-down, like the 6th mentioned in the previous article. Unfortunately when T examined the walls in the cathedral in 2008, 2010 and 2011 years all of these graffiti weren’t found.
Maybe after new examination, if it is successful, we'll have new interpretation some of them. Because some pictures of Robert are not very clear and can appear not exact.
Literature
Evdokimova 2013 - Evdokimova A. A. Greek graffiti in St.Sophia of Constantinople in the archive of Robert van Nice. (DOP, Washington) // Byzantine Epigraphy - New Methods and New Projects. Wien: 2013. (in press)
Evdokimova 2013a - Evdokimova A. A. New Greek graffiti in St.Sophia of Constantinople in the archive of Robert van Nice (DOP, Washington). Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология - XVTT. Материалы чтений, посвященных памяти профессора Иосифа Моисеевича Тронского. 24-26 июня 2013. СПб., Наука: 2013. С. 272-278.
Evdokimova 2011 - Евдокимова А. А. Греческие граффити из собора Софии Константинопольской (предварительные замечания) // Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология - XV. Материалы чтений, посвященных памяти профессора Иосифа Моисеевича Тронского. 20-22 июня 2011 г. СПб., Наука: 2011. С. 159-164.
Alexandra Evdokimova. New Greek graffiti in St. Sophia of Constantinople in the archive of Robert van Nice.
Part II . Preliminary observation
The paper presents photos of 25 unpublished Greek graffiti copied in 1969 by Barbara and Robert van Nice in the St. Sophia cathedral of Constantinople and now kept in the personal archive of Robert van Nice (DOP, Washington).
Keywords: Greek graffiti, the St. Sophia cathedral of Constantinople, archive of Robert van Nice.
