ГЛАЗИРАНА КЕРАМИКА СЪС СГРАФИТО УКРАСА ОТ ПОДГЛАЗУРНИ МОНОГРАМИ ОТ СРЕДНОВЕКОВНИЯ БЪЛГАРСКИ ГРАД ЧЕРВЕН: GLAZED CERAMICS WITH SGRAFFITO DECORATION OF UNDERGLAZE MONOGRAMS FROM THE MEDIEVAL BULGARIAN TOWN OF CHERVEN
Journal: Bulgarian Portal for Open Science
Year: 2025

This paper presents a mostly unpublished collection of eight glazed ceramic vessels with monograms that were obtained during the archaeological research at Cherven. Two of them are decorated with a previously unknown bar-shaped monogram that could be deciphered as the high ecclesiastical rank ‘metropolitan’. Another set is marked with a similar, though more complex monogram that probably denotes the rank ‘protokeliot’. The concentration of the unearthed vessels in the premises along the western