Tanulmány (study): itt
Szerző (author)
Bence Fehér
Cím (title)
New Runiform Inscription from Dombó
Hivatkozás (references)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.53644/EH.2022.2.43
Absztrakt (abstract)
Until now, medieval Hungarian runiform inscriptions were known almost exclusively from the Szekler land. The article discusses an inscription on a pilaster of the medieval abbey of Dombó (Szerém County) from the end of the 11th c., which was found in Bánmonostor. It is dubious whether the inscription is contemporaneous with the pilaster or whether it is a graffito from the 12th–14th centuries, or possibly from a secondary usage (15th c. – beginning of the 16th c.). It contains the following letter sequence in a mirrored Hungarian runiform script: ZBTÜT IRVN (or IRVK1) ++D (or ++ †). The first word is certainly ez betűt ‘that writing (Acc.)’. The second one is a conjugated form of the verb ír ‘write’, but it can be interpreted in three ways, according to the deciphering of the last character; it is probable in an archaic and perhaps unusually formed aoristos tense. The third one contains unidentifiable characters; it must refer to the writing person(s) – either with two maker’s marks and a cross, or with a threeletters name that we cannot read. The inscription, based on the forms of the words, was certainly made later, after the 11th c. It was most probably cut in during the existence of the Romanesque abbey; simpler possible interpretations of the second word suggest a 12th or 13th c. date.
Kulcsszavak (keywords)
runiform inscription, Dombó abbey, Szerém County, mirrored script, pilaster