Добавки към тълкуването на шуменските надписи и рисунки-графити
Additions to the Interpretation of the Shoumen Inscriptions and Graffito Drawings

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to four interesting inscriptions and graffito drawings discovered during the excavations of the Shoumen Fortress. The drawing, which probably refers to the 9th–10th c., represents a female figure surrounded by human and animal images. The first of the inscriptions is cut together with a schematic drawing on the broken bottom of a ceramic vessel. This is a prayer of a sort in which the artist Yoan notes that he wrote on the day of Sts Constantine and Hellene. In the second inscription, which seems to be of an apotropaic character, a certain Vlad, godfather of Teto, forbids people to eat from his щебръ (a deep vessel for keeping liquid food). These two inscriptions reflect certain interesting details from the popular dialects of the 12th–13th с. (the same sounding of ь and ѧ: denasalization of the “jer“ vowels; inconsistent use of the prothetic j). At variance with them, the third inscription, is of an official character. It is in a very poor state of preservation, but it is understood that it concerns the building of the кѹла (the inner citadel) of the big Shoumen fortress during the late 12th and early 13th с. There are quite numerous pieces of historical information about it, and the archaeological excavations have shown also its well-preserved ruins.

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