No 18

Location: On the window sill under a bricked-up window in a niche on the east wall of the north gallery at a height of 90 cm above the floor level.
Material: Marble surface, 6th century.

Dimensions: One-line inscription. The letters ranged in height from 0.7cm (H, О) to 1.3 cm (А).

Condition: Deeply incised, clearly legible letters.

Technique: Incised.

Language: Old Slavonic.

Scripture: Cyrillic.

Text:  

Translation: Mihal [Mihail Michael] of Kotel

Attribution: Autograph inscription.

Announced: Y. A. Artamonov, А. А. Gippius, I. V. Zaitsev, Drevnerusskie nadpisi-graffiti Konstantinopolskoy Sofii, v: 1150 let Rossiiskoy gosudarstvenosti i kultury, Moscow 2012, 290; Y. A. Artamonov, А. А. Gipppius, Drevnerusskie nadpisis v Sofii Konstantinopolskoy, v: Slavianskii almanah, Moscow 2012, 46.

Publications: Tomov, Nepoznatiyat hram „Sv. Sofia”, 162-163.

Commentary: Tomov, Nepoznatiyat hram „Sv. Sofia”, 162.

Palaeography: Tomov, Nepoznatiyat hram „Sv. Sofia”, 162.

Orthography: Tomov, Nepoznatiyat hram „Sv. Sofia”, 163.

Date: Middle to second half of the 12th century AD.