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The Murfatlar Script

     The Monastic Complex of Murfatlar was discovered in June 1957 near the village of Basarabi 1, Romania. The workers of a limestone quarry suddenly found an entrance to a Rock Church, which later would be called B1. From 1957 to 1960, Romanian archaeologists conducted an archaeological survey organised by the Institute of Archaeology in Bucharest, presented by Ion Barnea and the Directorate of Architectural Monuments, presented by Victor and Liana Bilciurescu 2. During studies, they found several churches and chapels (B1, B2, B3, B4, E3, E5), galleries (H, G1-5), burial chambers (C1, C2) and cells (E1, E2, E4, E6). Medieval workers in a limestone quarry and monks have left many anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and geometric drawings on soft limestone walls. Also, they had engraved Cyrillic, Glagolitic, Greek and Runiform inscriptions. The object of this paper is the Runiform inscriptions which, according to researchers of the rock complex, are over 60. The first part of thi...