{{Short description|Seven-pointed bronze rosette in Bulgaria}} 200px|thumb|right|The Pliska rosette The '''Pliska Rosette''' is a seven-pointed bronze rosette found in 1961 in Pliska, the medieval capital of Bulgaria. It is dated by archeologists to the 7th-9th century.
It is in the shape of a seven-pointed star and 38 mm in diameter. It is inscribed with Proto-Bulgar signs<ref>''The Bulgars seem to have spoken a Turkic language, and terms and titles in the Proto-Bulgar inscriptions can be paralleled in those from the Orkhon valley.'' For more see: Mark Whittow, The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600–1025; Macmillan International Higher Education, 1996, {{ISBN|1349247650}}, p. 271.</ref><ref>''Bulgar runic-like signs have also been found in clearly Christian contexts, such as the monasteries of Murfatlar (Constanţa district, Romania) and Ravna (Varna district, Bulgaria), as well as on the above-mentioned bronze rosette from Pliska. Some believe the script to be genuinely Bulgar one, although it is rather heterogeneous and about a third of the signs can be recognized in runic-like inscriptions of the so-called Orkhon-Yenisei type.'' For more see: “The” Other Europe in the Middle Ages: Avars, Bulgars, Khazars and Cumans; Volume 2, with editors Florin Curta and Roman Kovalev; BRILL, 2008, {{ISBN|9004163891}}, p. 191.</ref> of the Murfatlar type. Each ray is inscribed with two signs and an IYI symbol can be seen on the back.
==Modern use== Representations of the medallion's design are often used (along with the symbol IYI and first letter from the glagolitic alphabet - File:GlagolitsaAz.gif) by patriotic movements in Bulgaria. It is also used as the logo of bTV's documentary series ''Bulgarite (Българите)''.
==In popular culture== The Rosette features in the film In the Name of the King 3: The Last Mission by director Uwe Boll. It's tattooed on the arm of Hazen Kaine played by Dominic Purcell and has an important role in the plot of the film.
== References == <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.
==External links== * [http://promacedonia.org/sv/sv_3_3.htm Ст. Ваклинов. – Формиране на старобългарската култура VI-XI век, София, 1977 г., стр. 154. (in Bulgarian)] * [http://www.math.bas.bg/~keleved/dplisros/ M. Sidorov, E. Kelevedzhiev. An approach to dating the Pliska rozette.]
Category:Medieval history of Bulgaria Category:Proto-Bulgar inscriptions Category:Pliska