Material: Local stone
Object type: Stele
Dimensions: w 19 x h 25 cm
Text: Three line inscription. The figure of “Bolnisi Cross” embedded on a medallion shaped with small triangles is embossed on the base of the plaque surface. The inscription is carved below the cross. w 11 x h 5 cm
Letters: Embossed Asomtavruli inscription 2
Date: V-VI AD
Findspot: Bolnisi Sioni Bolnisi Sioni Cathedral is located in Kvemo Kartli, 9 km away from city Bolnisi to the south, 1 km distance from the village Bonis-Khachini. The inscription was discovered during the archaeological expedition held by the Cultural Heritage Preservation Committee supervised by Levan Muskhelishvili in 1937.
Original location: Bolnisi Sioni
Last recorded location(s): National Museum of Georgia 329
Text type:Unknown
Editor(s): Nodar Shoshiashvili
Changes history:2019-10-29 Eka Kvirkvelia ტექსტის სრული კოდირება, მეტამონაცემების სრული კოდირება, ბმულებით დაკავშირება ავტორიტეტულ წყაროსთან
Publication details:Ilia State University, Institute of Linguistic Studies; დოკუმენტი ვრცელდება Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 ლიცენზიით.
Translation
… Christ, Have mercy on … and his sons
Commentary
According to the Corpus of Georgian Inscriptions by Nodar Shoshiashvili the basis for attributing the inscription N14. The inscription can be dated according to the paleogeographic data: the top of the grapheme ყ is open. The grapheme ლ has a hardly noticeable additional horizontal line.
Bibliography
შოშიაშვილი, 1980 ნოდარ შოშიაშვილი, ქართული წარწერების კორპუსი, ლაპიდარული წარწერები, 79-80
ბაქრაძე, 1953 საქართველოს სახელმწიფო მუზეუმის ქართული ეპიგრაფიკული ძეგლების კატალოგი, 43
Images
Fig. 1.