Стила и закопчалки за книги от средновековния Филипопол (Пловдив)
Styluses and Book Clasps from Medieval Philippopolis (Plovdiv)

Summary/Abstract: The article presents three book clasps and two styluses. The objects have a standard shape and are common in the Middle Ages, but so far there are no such ones published by Plovdiv. This fills the map of their distribution in the Bulgarian lands during the Middle Ages. The first clasp is a small buckle and originates from a securely dated layer from the second half of the 12th – early 13th c. The second and third are sword-shaped. The second clasp originates from a securely dated layer, also the second half of the 12th – the beginning of the 13th c. A third was found in bulk layers from the 20th c., along with materials from antiquity, medieval times and the Ottoman period, but identically published by others with secure date in the Middle Ages, which allows the given here to no doubt be interpreted as medieval. The first stylus originates from a layer with a secure date the second half of the 12th – the beginning of the 13th c., and the second is in a contact zone between the layers of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, without being able to tell which of them belongs.

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