Rosette from Pliska
Rosette from Pliska
The Pliska Rosette is a Bulgar bronze medallion found in Pliska, Bulgaria in 1961, dated to the 7th-9th century
It in the shape of a seven-ray star, around 38 mm in diameter. It is inscribed with Proto-Bulgar signs, with two signs on each of the seven rays and a single symbol (IYI) on the back.
Representations of the medallion's design are often used (along with the symbol IYI and first letter from the glagolitic alphabet - 
) by nationalist and patriotic movements in Bulgaria. It is also used as the logo of bTV's documentary series Bulgarite (Българите).
References
- “The Bronze Rosette from Pliska: On Decoding the Runic Inscriptions in Bulgaria.” in Byzantino-Slavica. LVI (1995): 547-555 by Pavel Georgiev
- Juha Janhunen, Volker Rybatzki, "Writing in the Altaic world", in: Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference, p. 270.
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