Preslav Inscription

Abstract

The Preslav inscription is a list of protective military equipment, it was discovered during excavations on a marble column 2 m long and 0.39 m in diameter, found near the city of Veliki Preslav, and was written in capital Greek letters in Proto-Bulgarian, i.e. language of the Bulgars of Asparuh Khan, or only in the Bulgar language, as this language is well known in Türkology. This column was erected in front of a building specially built by Omurtag Khan just to store protective military equipment.

By the end of the last century, if more than three hundred Bulgarian borrowed words, mainly found in the Hungarian language, as well as toponyms in the historical Hungarian lands, are added to the Bulgarian language, the words, names of tribes, clans and peoples of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, etymologically substantiated and proven by Bulgarian scientists, amounted to more than 800 units. However, since the beginning of this century, work has been completed and published on the discovery, reading and translation of such inscriptions and texts as the Song of Dilgyu, the Boila Inscription, the Dengiz Inscription, the Couplet about Pugu, etc. Thus, it has now been established that the Bulgar language is also a language with uniquely original and extremely complex grammatical structure.

As a result of reading, transcription, etymology, interpretation and translation of individual parts of the Preslav inscription, and then the translation, interpretation and explanation of the text as a whole, the following list of protective equipment is obtained:

Ichergu-boyila Zhivko                         Turtun and the Governor

Leather armor - 455                    Plate shells - 20

Helmets – 540                             Helmets - 40

Plate shells – 427                        Mail - 1

Helmets - 854                              Nogavitsa - 1