No 3H
Location: Southern gallery, eastern exedra, beneath the frame of the last window on the east wall.
Material: Marble surface, 6th century.
Dimensions: Width 6.5 cm, height 8.7 cm.
Condition: Shallow engraving, interlaced with other graffiti occupying more than half the surface, but without disfiguring it.
Technique: Incised.
Description: Disordered signs, apparently resembling an inked shield, accompanied by a possible monogram. Gothic shield.
Аttribution (Th. Thomov): Byzantine shield with uncertain attribution, Middle or Late Byzantine period.
Attribution (M. Gorra): Agrees with the above.
Publications: Gorra, Maurizio. Observations and reflections on some coats of arms graffiti in Santa Sofia in Constantinople, Academia.edu
Commentary: The engraving has no heraldic value.
Date: Middle or Late Byzantine period.