Кирилица и глаголица срещу дявола, или още един оловен амулет от X в.
Cyrillic and Glagolitic Alphabets Against the Devil; A Lead Amulet from the Tenth Century

Summary/Abstract: The present article publishes for the first time a lead amulet from the 10th с. with a text both in Cyrillic and Glagolitic script. The text is inscribed on both sides of the lead amulet in 62 lines which contain 614 signs altogether – 341 on the front side and 273 on the reverse. The total number of Glagolitic letters is 52. The most frequent of them is À (15 examples), while the rest appear with lesser frequency – Å (4); È (1); Ñ (1); Õ (4); Ø (9); Ù (4); Ý (4); Ô (1); Æ (2): › (5); ћ (1); Ö (1). After the reconstruction of the text on the basis of the surviving fragments it became clear that it is an incantation against the Devil striving to influence man. No similar text is known in the available apocryphal literature. The specifics of the text as well as the use of a mixed Cyrillic-Glagolitic script, which is not found in any of the other published lead amulets (except for one recently published amulet from Kărdzhali), make the amulet particularly important and interesting.

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