Material: Local stone
Object type: Cross
Dimensions: w 12 x h 41 cm
Text: Seven line inscription. Four side stone (probably the lower part of a cross pillar) has a foot to be fixed in the pedestal. Two sides of the stone are smooth, on one side there is the embossed ornament of six leaves rosette embedded in a medallion that is decorated with the ornament of the pine needles. cm
Letters: Engraved Asomtavruli inscription 1-2
Date: VIII 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 135
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.
Commentary
According to the Corpus of Georgian Inscriptions by Nodar Shoshiashvili the inscription #47. Abbreviation mark: medium size horizontal straight line. The inscription does not contain any mark of separation. The inscription is dated according to the paleographic data: the angular shape of the grapheme Ⴇ, the graphemes Ⴐ, Ⴄ having widely open top lines and the grapheme Ⴊ with slightly inclined lines to the left, the grapheme Ⴘ also has the top arch engaged.
Bibliography
შოშიაშვილი, 1980 ნოდარ შოშიაშვილი, ქართული წარწერების კორპუსი, ლაპიდარული წარწერები, 118
მუსხელიშვილი, 1938 ლევან მუსხელიშვილი, ბოლნისი, 332-333
ბაქრაძე, 1953 საქართველოს სახელმწიფო მუზეუმის ქართული ეპიგრაფიკული ძეგლების კატალოგი, 22
Images
Fig. 1.