Old Russian Graffito Inscription in the Abbey of Saint-Gilles, South of France
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22344153 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne-Sophie Brun (Aix-Marseille Université), Andréas Hartmann-Virnich (0000-0003-0268-9510, Aix-Marseille Université), Estelle Ingrand-Varenne (0000-0002-5223-5595, Université de Poitiers), Savva M Mikheev (0000-0002-1530-2808, Russian Academy of Sciences) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 110-129 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slovene (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2304-0785 • E-ISSN: 2305-6754 |
| Publisher | Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • RU) |
| DOI | 10.31168/2305-6754.2014.3.2.2 |
| OpenAlex | W4463268 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
The abbey of Saint-Gilles-du-Gard near Arles in the south of France was one of the most prominent pilgrimage sites in medieval Europe. Recent archaeological investigation has shown that construction of the abbey church, one of the most significant Romanesque pilgrimage churches in southern France, began ca. 1170/1180. The lower church (crypt) with the tomb of St. Giles (Lat. Aegidius, Fr. Gilles) and some of the walls of the upper church belong to that period. A well-preserved Cyrillic graffito was discovered on a pier of the upper church, close to the spot where the tomb of St. Giles is located in the crypt below. The text contains a prayer with a common formula: GI POMЪZI | RABU SVЪ|EMU SЬMKЪ|VI NINOSLA|VICHIU ‘Lord, help your servant Semko, son of Ninoslav.’ Palaeographic and linguistic analysis shows that the graffito is of Russian origin. It was probably made at some time between 1180 and 1250 by a pilgrim travelling from Russia to Santiago de Compostela, and it is the most geographically remote Old Russian graffito inscription discovered so far in western Europe
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Pilgrim · Pilgrimage · Prayer · SAINT · Servant · Theology · Byzantine Studies and History · Historical and Archaeological Studies · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |