Традиционен български накит (По повод колекцията от пафти в Силистренския музей)
Traditional Bulgarian jewellery (On the occasion of the collection of belt buckles at Silistra Museum)

Summary/Abstract: Twenty belt buckles in the collection at Silistra Museum are divided into six groups according to external signs — form and ornamentation. On the basis of parallels, acquired in regular archaeological excavations, an attempt is made to date them and define them ethnically. Certain basic conclusions have been drawn on the buckles in the Silistra collection and those found in Bulgarian lands in general: buckles were already known in the 9th-10th century according to finds, in Madara and Hungary; they were mass produced in the period of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom; lasting forms and patterns of ornamentation were created at that time which continued to exist until the early years of the 20th century; a gradual increase in the size of the buckles is to be observed. The author maintains that buckles carried a semantic-apotropaic connotation (a pagan image on the obverse brought to the Bulgarian lands by the Proto-Bulgarians).

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