No 34

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 25.5 cm long. The relatively straight and even letters ranged in height from 0.5 cm (О) to 1.7 cm (Ѱ).

Condition: Lightly incised letters, worn out in places.

Technique: Incised.

Language: Old Slavonic.

Scripture: Cyrillic.

Text ♦:    

Translation: Putjata, son of Klim (Klimovič) 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.

Publications: Tomov, Nepoznatiyat hram „Sv. Sofia”, 182-183.

Commentary: Tomov, Nepoznatiyat hram „Sv. Sofia”, 182.

Palaeography: Tomov, Nepoznatiyat hram „Sv. Sofia”, 182-183.

Orthography: Tomov, Nepoznatiyat hram „Sv. Sofia”, 183.

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