No 26

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 directly below the previous one with total length 12.5 cm and height of the letter varying between 0.4 cm (О₂) and 1 cm (Ѱ).

Condition: Lightly incised, some letters barely legible.

Technique: Incised.

Language: Old Slavonic.

Scripture: Cyrillic.

Text ♦:   

Restored text:   

Translation: Gleb, son of Boris (Borisovič) wrote [this]

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”, 173-175.

Commentary: Tomov, Nepoznatiyat hram „Sv. Sofia”, 174.

Palaeography: Tomov, Nepoznatiyat hram „Sv. Sofia”, 174.

Orthography: Tomov, Nepoznatiyat hram „Sv. Sofia”, 174.

Date: Second half of the 12th – beginning of the 13th century AD.