Corrigenda epigraphica. Part 1
Abstract:
The article examines 15 inscriptions, mostly of Rus origin.
I give a new or a more precise reading of the following texts: a graffito on the Przemyśl Cross, an inscription on a serpentine amulet from Kanev uezd, a grave inscription in the Near Caves of the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, two graffiti from the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev mentioning princesses, an inscription on the icon “The Savior of Golden Hair” from the Moscow Dormition Cathedral, a prayer graffito of Ivan from the St. Euphrosyne Convent in Polotsk, an inscription on the Novgorod “seal of Iziaslav Vladimirovich”, as well as a graffito about the death of Sava Sdilovich from Staraia Ladoga.
I specify or revise the dating of the boundary stone from Izborsk (new dating: mid-12th — early 14th century), as well as the inscription of Sivord Olafovich on a stone from Chełm (probably mid- or late 13th century), the silver chalice of the prince Vladimir Davydovich (15th century; with clarification of the reading of its preparatory inscription and a new attribution of the chalice), the Pregradnoe Cross from the Stavropol region (probably not earlier than the 16th century).
In addition, I express doubt about the alphabet in which an inscription on a wall of the New Pilgrims’ Hospital in Pons was made, and give an amendment to the interpretation and dating of an inscription on the rim of a pot from Rostislavl Riazanskii.