Boženishki Inscription
13th c.
A rock inscription in which a boyar named Ivan records his own deeds and lineage.
The object
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Why it matters
The inscription names a sevast, Ognyan, and says he had been a kefalia under Tsar Shishman. That distinction — sevast as the man's rank, kefalia as the office he held — is the clearest evidence there is that the Bulgarian sevast kept the honorific character of its Byzantine original rather than becoming a job.
It is also, with the Stanimaka inscription, one of only two stone texts to say anything substantial about the aristocracy. Everything else merely records that someone held a title.
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Description
- Date
- 13th c.
- Language
- Middle Bulgarian
- Material
- Rock
- Place
- Boženitsa