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DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2023.87.48.017 THE INSCRIPTION OF THE NUZAL CHAPEL – A PAGE OF THE SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHY OF M.-F. BROSSE
Iodko, Olga V.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2023. IIS 48 (87).
Abstract:
Disputes about the content and authenticity of the Georgian inscription left on the wall of the Nuzal Chapel in the Alagir Gorge in North Ossetia and allegedly hinted at the burial here of the second husband and co‑ruler of Queen Tamar, Ossetian David Soslan, began with its first publication in 1830 by a member of the Asian Scientific Society M.‑F. Brosset in the “Journal Asiatique”. These disputes have not stopped to this day; none of those who left descriptions of the chapel have seen the inscription. In Brosset’s publication of 1830, the Nuzal inscription concerned only the second section – the Georgian text, the French translation and the commentary. Brosset received this inscription from G. A. Rosenkampf. In the publications of 1830 and then 1840 in the “Mémoires de l’Académie Impériale des sciences de St. Pétersbourg”, Brosset inclines to the fact that the inscription does not speak of David Soslan, but of os‑Bagatar, and it could be the prince who died in 1307. Both the existence and the content of the inscription were questioned by E. G. Pchelina, which is reflected in the materials of her personal papers in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Several variants of the fate of the Nuzal inscription are given by archaeologist V. A. Kuznetsov in the book “Recom, Nuzal and Tsarazonta”; it was suggested that the Ossetian writer I. G. Yalguzidze saw the inscription, copied it and handed it to Rosenkampf. It can be assumed that Rosenkampf could have received the text of the inscription from the nephew of his brother‑in‑ law J. Blaramberg, as well as from oriental materials that A. J. Saint‑Martin prepared for publication in the 1820s. Finally, there are also cases of scientific “mischief” known to history.
Keywords: M.‑F. Brosset, David Soslan, inscription, Nuzal Chapel.
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 For citation:: Iodko, O. V. The inscription of the Nuzal Chapel – a page of the scientific biography
of M.‑F. Brosset // Izvestiya SOIGSI. 2023. Iss. 48 (87). Pp. 52‑61. (in Russian).
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