From: e.karloukovski@uea.ac.uk (Vassil Karloukovski) Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (...) Date: 06 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <7brmnt$13j@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> References: <36ca073a.16343620@news.yale.edu> <36cca3ed.14676934@news.yale.edu> <36ccb13d.18084634@news.yale.edu> <7ap23l$klu@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36dc5653.5725843@news.yale.edu> <7bk2dp$39@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36dde855.22846201@news.yale.edu> <36DE4DD5.1B77@see.sig> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Organization: University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.lang In article <36DE4DD5.1B77@see.sig>, george@see.sig says... >Cluster User wrote: ... >But do those golden vessels of Nagyszentmiklos/Sannicolaul Mare >(now in a museum in Vienna, Austria) have any Christian symbols? >I have a color picture with 11 of the 23 items. On a larger dish-bowl >there is a cross surrounded by 2 decorative circles: many bulgar inscriptions have crosses, and one khan - Kubrat, is known to have been Christian (Kubrat in his childhood lived in Constantinople and was a "close friend of the emperor Heraclius", /Joan Nicius/). But as Mr. Nikolov and others say, the "God" in the bulg. inscriptions was probably some anonymous god and not the Christian one. the 1st one has an >inscription--seemingly uncial letters; the text is unreadable, since >this is no close-up photo. there are a lot of inscriptions on the vessels - bulgar in greek and runic letters, and non-bulgar in runic. Have a look at http://members.tripod.com/~Groznijat/pb_lang/suppl6.html - runic http://members.tripod.com/~Groznijat/pb_lang/pbl_1_3.html - greek Besides, does anyone know what the >bas-relief bird on the main mug as well as the bovid-elk-like heads >attached to 2 tripod-chalices symbolize? ?? Are there any good web-sites with pictures from Nagy Saint Miklos? I would like to index them from my site. Regards, Vassil K. >Thank you. >George >