No 6

Location: North side, southern three-light candelabra in the central part of the so-called 'Lodge of the Empress'.

Material: Green Thessalian marble, 6th century.

Dimensions: Three-line inscription with first line 4.3 cm long, second line 7.3 cm long, and third line 12 cm. The letters on the first line ranged in height from 0.9 (Г, H, П, О) to 1.3 cm (Ꙁ), and on the second line from 0.5 cm (Б) and 0.8 cm (А, О, М), through 1 cm (Б, ОУ, С, В, Е) to 1.3 (У). The height of the letters on third line varied in size, with larger letters of 1.3 cm (М, H) and 1.5 cm (Г), most at around 1 cm (М, Ъ, С, N, Т, Л), and smallest at 0.5 cm (О).

Condition: Legible letters.

Technique: Incised.

Language: Old Slavonic.

Scripture: Cyrillic.

Text♦:

 
 
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Restored text:      

Translation: Lord, help your servant of name Gostil

Attribution: Prayer inscription.

Announced: Y. A. Artamonov, A. A. Gippius, Drevnoruskie nadpisi Sofii Konstantinopolsoy, v: Slavianskii almanah, Москва 2011, 45; А. А. Artamonov, А. А. Gippius, I. V. Zaitsev, Drevnoruskie nadpisi-graffiti Konstantinopolskoy Sofii, v: 1150 let Rossiiskoy gosudarstvenosti i kultury, Moscow 2012, 288.

Publication: Tomov, Nepoznatiyat hram „Sv. Sofia”, 39-41.

Commentary: Tomov, Nepoznatiyat hram „Sv. Sofia”, 40.

Palaeography: Tomov, Nepoznatiyat hram „Sv. Sofia”, 41.

Orthography: Tomov, Nepoznatiyat hram „Sv. Sofia”, 41.

Date: First half of the 12th century AD.