No 27

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 10.7 cm long. The height of the relatively evenly spaced letters varies from 0.4 cm (Л) to 1.6 cm (Ъ), but after the er the line slopes to the right.

Condition: lightly incised but clearly legible letters.

Technique: incised

Language: Old Slavonic

Scripture: Cyrillic

Text ♦:     

Restored text:    

Translation: In the year of six thousand…

Attribution: chronicle record

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

Publications: Tomov, Nepoznatiyat hram „Sv. Sofia”, 175-176.

Commentary: Tomov, Nepoznatiyat hram „Sv. Sofia”, 175.

Palaeography: Tomov, Nepoznatiyat hram „Sv. Sofia”, 175.

Orthography: Tomov, Nepoznatiyat hram „Sv. Sofia”, 176.

Date: second half of the 12th - early 13th century.