Rosette from Pliska
Encyclopedia
The Rosette from Pliska is an ancient Bulgar
bronze
artifact
found in Pliska
, Bulgaria
in 1961. The Rosette is dated to the 7th-9th century. It measures around 6 cm in diameter. The Rosette itself is a seven-beam star
-medallion with Proto-Bulgar signs on it. On the back of the medallion is carved the Protobulgarian symbol IYI.
- ) by nationalist movements in Bulgaria.
The Rosette is used as the logo of bTV's documentary series Bulgarite (Българите).
Bulgars
The Bulgars were a semi-nomadic who flourished in the Pontic Steppe and the Volga basin in the 7th century.The Bulgars emerge after the collapse of the Hunnic Empire in the 5th century....
bronze
Bronze
Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal...
artifact
Artifact (archaeology)
An artifact or artefact is "something made or given shape by man, such as a tool or a work of art, esp an object of archaeological interest"...
found in Pliska
Pliska
Pliska is the name of both the first capital of Danubian Bulgaria and a small town which was renamed after the historical Pliska after its site was determined and excavations began....
, Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
in 1961. The Rosette is dated to the 7th-9th century. It measures around 6 cm in diameter. The Rosette itself is a seven-beam star
Star
A star is a massive, luminous sphere of plasma held together by gravity. At the end of its lifetime, a star can also contain a proportion of degenerate matter. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth...
-medallion with Proto-Bulgar signs on it. On the back of the medallion is carved the Protobulgarian symbol IYI.
Contemporary use
The Rosette is often used (along with the symbol IYI and first letter from the glagolitic alphabetGlagolitic alphabet
The Glagolitic alphabet , also known as Glagolitsa, is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. The name was not coined until many centuries after its creation, and comes from the Old Slavic glagolъ "utterance" . The verb glagoliti means "to speak"...
- ) by nationalist movements in Bulgaria.
The Rosette is used as the logo of bTV's documentary series Bulgarite (Българите).