Savva M. Mikheev*, Victor K. Singh**
* Institute of Slavic Studies RAS, Moscow (mikheev@gmail.com)
** Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow (arxeolog@gmail.com)

Key words: Medieval Russia, Novgorod, Troitsky excaration site, archaeology, epigraphy, graffiti, Glagolitic alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet, bone, 11th century.

A bone fragment inscribed with Glagolitic and Cyrillic characters was discovered in 2013 in the 1050–1090 layer of the Troitsky site in Novgorod. One side of the fragment bears no fewer than seven Cyrillic inscriptions one to four characters each. Their meaning remains unclear. A Glagolitic inscription on the other side reads (or ml i) with ml as ligature. Paleographic analysis suggests a dating consistent with the stratigraphic location of the find.