ЗА ДВА СРЕДНОБЪЛГАРСКИ ЕПИГРАФСКИ ПАМЕТНИКА ОТ ШУМЕНСКАТА КРЕПОСТ
ON TWO MIDDLE BULGARIAN EPIGRAPHIC MONUMENTS FROM THE SHUMEN FORTRESS

Summary/Abstract: The article proposes a new approach to the linguistic and cultural- historical analysis of two Middle Bulgarian inscriptions from the Shumen Fortress. In connection with the content of the so-called Apodrases inscription, the conclusion is that there is a prayer text by an anonymous iconographer who, without adhering to the canonical patterns of icon painting, painted one of the churches in the Shumen Fortress and namely for that reason asked God to forgive his audacity. The paleographic and linguistic features of the second inscription, attesting to the construction not of a tower, but of a granary, whose pollution was sanctioned, date the creation of the text to the 12th – 14th centuries. The incomplete information surrounding its discovery allows us to assume that the stone block was used secondarily during one of the renovations of the Shumen fortress.

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