Надписите за собственост върху произведенията на торевтиката от старобългарската и среднобългарската епоха (IX-XIV в.)
Ownership Inscriptions on Toreutic Works of the Old Bulgarian and Middle Bulgarian Ages (9th-14th c.)

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the inscriptions of ownership on works of toreutics from the First and Second Bulgarian Kingdoms. They all are crafted in the spirit of the European mediaeval tradition in compliance with which the rulers presented aristocrats with cups, spoons and other cutlery of precious metal as a sign of their favour. The oldest texts were discovered on vessels of the Nagy szent Miklos treasure and the cup of the Grand Zupan Sivin of Preslav. In the 13th с the nobleman Vaco of Shoumen ordered the goldsmiths to engrave on his personal silver cup a cheering verse. Already in the 14th с were executed the inscriptions on the silver cups of a not identified boyar from Gogo§u (in today's Republic Romania) and of Fraguci Gurgur in the Vidin region and on a silver spoon, the property of a certain Vladimir, whose possessions were near the modern town of Doupnitsa. Particularly remarkable are the eight texts on the silver vessels from the set of the nobleman Balin who accompanied King Ivan Shishman during his retreat to Nikopol in 1393.

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