Runica Bulgarica

     The Monastic Complex of Murfatlar was discovered in June 1957 near the village of Basarabi 1, Romania. The workers of a limestone quarry suddenly found an entrance to a Rock Church, which later would be called B1. From 1957 to 1960, Romanian archaeologists conducted an archaeological survey organised by the Institute of Archaeology in Bucharest, presented by Ion Barnea and the Directorate of Architectural Monuments, presented by Victor and Liana Bilciurescu 2. During studies, they found several churches and chapels (B1, B2, B3, B4, E3, E5), galleries (H, G1-5), burial chambers (C1, C2) and cells (E1, E2, E4, E6). Medieval workers in a limestone quarry and monks have left many anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and geometric drawings on soft limestone walls. Also, they had engraved Cyrillic, Glagolitic, Greek and Runiform inscriptions. The object of this paper is the Runiform inscriptions which, according to researchers of the rock complex, are over 60. The first part of thi...

But let's move on. Three groups of letters with a title above them occur in the M2 inscription. These are religious concepts that will lend themselves to translation more easily. Inscription M2 The third of them consists of three letters: There is a similar combination of letters at the beginning of inscription M13: Inscription M13 Also, in the inscription M55, the upper two letters are the first letters of the same three-letter combination: The first letter of the same combination is incised twice on a bow from the city of Békés Hungary (Libisch G. 2004). Inscription from Hungary Undoubtedly, this is a significant expression. But what is it? A curious inscription from Murfatlar will perhaps shed some light on the matter: Inscription M82 On the inscription M82, in addition to IС ЧС, letters seem interwoven instead of the two parts of the cross. I don't know why, but it occurred to me that these letters are the runic ...

The letter  is the most common sign from Murfatlar. In the inscription, M35 is penultimate, and in M37, it is last. Inscription M35 Inscription M37 It is the only common letter in both inscriptions. I gradually concluded that if there is a word for a saint here, it starts with this letter. The meaning of this letter in Glagolitic is "i", which allows us to replace the whole word with "izge" - lights. This is the word's meaning in Tatar and Bashkir, where it is borrowed from Volga-Bulgarian. The word is also borrowed in Hungarian with the meaning of saint (Rona-Tas A. 2010).  In this situation, inscription M35 reads: (J)o(a)n iz(d)(e)= John the Baptist. Relying on this inscription, we get the meanings of several letters. Remarkably, three of them have parallels in Glagolitic, which makes me look around for more Glagolitic "coincidences" among the signs from Murfatlar. For M11 and M39, the first th...