The Humac tablet ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Хумачка плоча, Хумска плоча, separator=" / ", Humačka ploča, Humska ploča) is an
Old Slavic
Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic () was the first Slavic literary language.
Historians credit the 9th-century Byzantine missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius with standardizing the language and using it in translating the Bible and other ...
epigraph in
Bosnian Cyrillic script in the form of a stone tablet, believed to be variously dated to between the 10th and 12th century, being one of the oldest Bosnian preserved inscriptions.
It is the oldest Cyrillic epigraph found in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was found in the village of
Humac in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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. It is kept at the museum of the
Franciscan friary in Humac. It was first noted by a French diplomat at the
Bosnia Vilayet.
There is disagreement over the dating; Yugoslav epigrapher and historian
Marko Vego -->Gradsko groblje Bare ''( en, City Cemetery Bare)'', Sarajevo
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dated it to the end of the 10th or the beginning of the 11th century; linguist
Jovan Deretić to the 10th or 11th century; historian
Dimitrije Bogdanović to the 12th century.
The text of the tablet tells about the act of raising a church dedicated to the Archangel
Michael
Michael may refer to:
People
* Michael (given name), a given name
* Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael
Given name "Michael"
* Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian an ...
by Krsmir (also rendered Uskrsimir or Krešimir) and his wife Pavica. The tablet is quadrangle in shape (68x60x15 cm), and the inscription is carved in form of a quadrangle in Cyrillic script among which five
Glagolitic letters (four
E-like letters resembling Ⰵ and a Ⱅ letter alongside a conventional Cyrillic Т) occur.
Text
Transliteration and the interpretation of the text differs among Slavicists and
paleographers.
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History of the Serbo-Croatian language
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