Rosette from Pliska

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.

Contemporary use

The Rosette is often used (along with the symbol IYI and first letter from the glagolitic alphabet - ) by nationalist movements in Bulgaria.

The Rosette is used as the logo of bTV's documentary series Bulgarite (Българите).

References

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• “The Bronze Rosette from Pliska: On Decoding the Runic Inscriptions in Bulgaria.” in Byzantino-Slavica. LVI (1995): 547-555 by Pavel Georgiev
• Writing in the Altaic world proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference - Page 270

by Juha Janhunen, Volker Rybatzki