On the donor’s inscription of Prince Miroslav in the Church of St. Peter on the Lim

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Marković, M. (2012). On the donor’s inscription of Prince Miroslav in the Church of St. Peter on the Lim, (36), 21-46. doi:10.2298/ZOG1236021M
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Title

On the donor’s inscription of Prince Miroslav in the Church of St. Peter on the Lim

Subtitle
Author

Miodrag, Marković

Journal

Zograf

Volume
Issue

36

Start page

21

End page

46

ISSN

0350-1361

ISBN
DOI

10.2298/ZOG1236021M

URL

http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-13611236021M

Date

2012-2020/03/11/20:16:49

Abstract

The Old Slavonic Cyrillic letters „o“ and „h“ written at the end of Prince Miroslav’s inscription in the church of St. Peter in Bijelo Polje are not, as was earlier thought, an abridged invocation or an acronym. One should not interpret them either as an abbreviation for some word or personal name. It is much more likely that in the said position, these letters were written out as alphabetic numerals and that as a part of the iscription’s date, they testify that the church of St. Peter was built in the 6670th year from the creation of the world, i.e.1161/1162 AD. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177036: Srpska srednjovekovna umetnost i njen evropski kontekst]

Keywords

Serbian medieval architecture, alphabetic numeral systems, Church of St. Peter in Bijelo Polje, donor’s inscription, Prince Miroslav