TITLE:
The Inscription of Parvomai (Bulgaria)
AUTHORS:
Reinhardt S. Stein, Giancarlo T. Tomezzoli
KEYWORDS:
Parvomai, Inscription, Deciphering, Thracians, Bulgaria
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Anthropology,
Vol.6 No.2,
May
19,
2016
ABSTRACT: A rock inscribed with ancient, strange characters in the locality of Parvomai on the peak Elez, in the area of the villages of Bukovo and Voden near Mount Dragoyna, Northeastern Rodopi region (Bulgaria) was brought to the attention of the archaeologists by Paun Tashev. The inscription attracted our attention and pushed us to exercise our skills for providing its deciphering. The similarities between the name or the words in the inscription with a Slavic god name or surviving words still present in modern Slavic languages indicate, in both the cases, that tribes or peoples speaking Slavic languages were present in Northeastern Rodopi region in the Bronze Age, i.e. well before the VII century A.D. generally accepted period of the arrival of the Slavs in Eastern Europe.