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"Contextualized Writings" in Old Novgorod: Birchbark Documents and Graffiti-Inscriptions in Comparative Overview
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The paper presents a comparative overview of two categories of Old Rus' writing: birchbark documents and graffiti inscriptions on church walls. Similarities and differences between them are illustrated on the examples of two sets of birchbark documents discoverd at Troitskii excavation site in Velikii Novgorod and two sets of graffiti insriptions - in St Sophia Cathedral and St Geogge Cfthedral in the Yuriev Monastery.
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Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag, 2019.
Артамонов Ю. А., Gippius A., Древняя Русь. Вопросы медиевистики 2025 С. 24–42
The article continues a series of publications on Slavonic-Russian graffiti from the 11th–15th centuries found in the St. Sophia Cathedral (Hagia Sophia) of Constantinople. The reader is offered a description of nine inscriptions identified and recorded in 2008–2009 in the northern gallery. ...
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Gippius A., В кн.: Русское денежное обращение IX—XVII вековТ. 2: Нумизматический сборник к 70-летию Петра Григорьевича Гайдукова.: М.: Институт археологии Российской академии наук, 2025. С. 62–68.
Th e article continues the series of works on Old Russian money-weight systems, launched by the publication of the Novgorod birchbark document No. 1072 of the late 12th century. Th e critical analysis of the alternative interpretation of this document, proposed by A. A. Kupranis and A. A. Popov (2019), allows the author to stay ...
Added: November 20, 2025
Gippius A., Вопросы языкознания 2025 № 4 С. 7–41
This article contains a preliminary publication of 30 birchbark letters found during the 2024 archaeological season at the Troitsky excavation in Veliky Novgorod. The vast majority of the published texts date back to the 12th century. Most important in historical and philological terms are the following items: a letter mentioning a military campaign and related ...
Added: September 21, 2025
Shelov-Kovedyaev F. V., В кн.: Херсонесский сборник. Выпуск XXVIВып. XXVI.: Севастополь: Государственный историко-археологический музей-заповедник Херсонес Таврический, 2025. Гл. 21 С. 172–179.
In note 21, the author suggests that the much-discussed epitaph of the commander of the Armenian archers from Chersonesos (IosPE I2 597 + fragment from V.I. Kadeev's excavations in 1971) states that Aikhmon Zareyev, while he was in command of a detachment of Armenian archers, was killed by Ard Maev at the beginning of the ...
Added: February 17, 2025
Gippius A., Щеголькова Е. Ю., В кн.: Росписи Георгиевского собора Юрьева монастыря: археология и искусство.: М.: ИА РАН, 2024. Гл. 3 С. 452–541.
Настоящий каталог содержит описание 100 надписей-граффити, читающихся на фрагментах фресок из алтарной части Георгиевского собора Юрьева монастыря и раскрытых в ходе архитектурно-археологических работ, проводимых в стенах этого храма Институтом археологии РАН в 2014-2015 гг. В публикации приводятся фотографии и схемы с изображениями фрагментов, тексты и переводы наиболее значимых и уверенно интерпретируемых надписей XII-XV вв., из которых каждая сопровождается исследовательским комментарием, ...
Added: November 21, 2024
Gippius A., Вопросы языкознания 2024 № 4 С. 7–26
The article contains a preliminary publication of nineteen birchbark letters found during the archaeological season of 2023 in Veliky Novgorod (Nos. 1158–1172) and Staraya Russa (Nos. 55–58). The published documents date back to the 12th— early 16th centuries. From the historical point of view, three 14th-century documents are of the greatest value: No. 1164 is ...
Added: September 7, 2024
Gippius A., Вопросы языкознания 2023 № 5 С. 7–28
: The article contains a preliminary publication of twelve birchbark letters of the twelfth— first half of the fifteenth century, found in the archaeological season of 2022 in Veliky Novgorod (Nos. 1146– 1157), and letters Nos. 52 and 53 from Staraya Russa. Letters Nos. 1142 and 1143 from the excavations of 2021, which were not included ...
Added: February 13, 2024
Gippius A., Studi Slavistici 2023 Т. 20 № 1 С. 5–20
The article analyses the Glagolitic prayer on the lead amulet published by K. Popkonstantinov
and H. Miklas in 2009. A new reading of the central phrase is proposed based on the parallels in
Novgorod birchbark documents. In the second part of the article, the Varna amulet and artefacts of
its circle are compared with the birchbark documents about ...
Added: September 26, 2023
Gippius A., Вопросы языкознания 2022 № 6 С. 7–20
The article contains a preliminary publication of seven birchbark letters of the 12th — first half
of the 15th centuries found during the archaeological season of 2021 in Veliky Novgorod (Nos. 1136–
1141, 1144) and the letter No. 52 from Staraya Russa. Especially interesting in their contents are
No. 1137 (early 15th century) — a fragment of a ...
Added: December 5, 2022
Gippius A., Mikheev S. M., Graphosphaera. Письмо и письменные практики 2021 Т. 1 С. 199–214
Статья вводит в научный оборот серию надписей-граффити, выявленных на белокаменных блоках фасадов Спасо-Преображенского собора в Переславле-Залесском в результате археологических и реставрационных работ 2014–2021 гг. Здесь, в частности, представлены искусная монограмма Феодора; краткое граффито с датой смерти ктитора храма – князя Юрия Владимировича (Долгорукого); запись о кончине некой Варвары, «милостыней приучившей к [посещению] церкви много вдов»; ...
Added: November 19, 2022
Gippius A., Mikheev S. M., В кн.: Архитектурная археология. № 4Вып. 4.: М.: Институт археологии Российской академии наук, 2022. С. 98–111.
The authors publish five inscriptions which date from the 12th to the first half of the 13th century. Among those is an autograph of a deacon from the Novgorod convent of St. John the Baptist with the earliest record of “Rostkin” as the common-usage name of that convent; inscriptions of Sozont and Sergius with self-deprecating epithets ...
Added: November 19, 2022
Артамонов Ю. А., Gippius A., Древняя Русь. Вопросы медиевистики 2022 № 1(87) С. 115–137
The article is the first in a series of publications devoted to the Slavonic-Russian graffiti of the 11th - 15th centuries found in the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Constantinople. Along with a briefreview oftheir study, the reader is offered a description of eight inscriptions revealed in 2008-2011 in the eastern segment of the south gallery. ...
Added: November 18, 2022
Shelov-Kovedyaev F. V., Stratum Plus 2020 № 6 С. 203–211
The paper publishes some new and summarizes earlier known evidences demonstrating the presence of the Sarmatians in the North Black Sea Region and Crimea in the 3rd cent. B. C. The new evidence includes: the Attic black lacquer plate from the excavations on acropolis of Panticapaeum with a spell against the Sarmatians cast as late ...
Added: October 27, 2022
Shelov-Kovedyaev F. V., В кн.: ХХ Боспорские чтения. Боспор Киммерийский и варварский мир в период античности и средневековья. Основные итоги и перспективы исследованийТ. ХХ.: ИП Кифниди Георгий Иванович, 2019. С. 35–40.
В статье публикуются фрагменты штукатурки из святилища в Пантикапее, содержащие просьбы к божеству от отправляющихся в путешествия и грубая брань в адрес последних со стороны их недоброжелателей ...
Added: October 27, 2022