Alattyán-Tulát: grave no. 164. The object is the lock of a bag, carved from bone with three holes, has a rovás inscription on one side. [István Erdélyi Az avarság és a kelet a régészeti források tükrében" (The Avars and the East as mirrored in ancient sources.). Akadémiai kiadó 1982]

Balatonszepezd: memorial stone with rovás - the stone was brought from the stone quarry of Kõvágóõrs and was brought to its present location. The inscription was meant to preserve the ancient Hungarian rovás. Gyula Sebestyén's text was carved by a stonemason. It was erected in 1966.

Battonya: signet ring with rovás - its material is bronze, contains 12 rovás-letters, from a mass-grave of equestrians, possible date 1242 (?). It is in the possession of Miklós Froch who presently is the curator of the Keszthely Balaton Museum.

Bernhardsthal: grave no.16, in a Slavonic graveyard near the Avar burial site, a clay vessel with rovás.

Besztercebánya: The letters of the Bible - A rovás alphabet from the archives of Besztercebánya.

Békés: Burial ground from the time of Árpád, grave no. 45, equestrian burial, a bone bow with five platelets, six rovás letters.

Rovás Alphabet of Mátyás Bél from 1718 and the rovás alphabet from Leipzig, from 1745. Found in Oxford, Bodley Library.

Bonyha: (near the river Kis Küküllõ) - This rovás was found carved in stone, in the Calvinist church, discovered by the rev. Albert Benczédi in 1965. Its reproduction can be found in the Mûvelõdéstörténeti Tanulmányok, Vol.#1979. The photograph of the original stone was taken by István Györbiró retired professor, resident of Sepsiszentgyörgy and the above mentioned drawing was based upon this picture.

Bögöz: rovás from the 14th c. gothic church. Discovered by Béla Szigethy theologian and Pál F. Kassay in 1930. The writing is visible in the halo around Christ's head, six letters, dated 1530 with the names of the builders. These names can also be verified from documents dated to the same year.

Budapest-Tihany-place: silver vessel with scratched in tamga-type signs. (István Erdélyi, as above)

Csíkszentmihály-Csíkszentmiklós, it is also mentioned as originating from Csíkszentmárton - only its copy is known from the archives of the Ráday family, dating to the 18th century. Its original was dated from 1500 with 82 rovás letters divided into three rows. The words are separated by four vertically placed dots.

Csíkszereda: rovás inscription above a Székely-door, can be dated between the 17th and 19th centuries, has eight rovás letters.

Dálnok: Inscription in the Reformed Church, it was found at the time of the 1977 earthquake, when the church suffered some damage. The inscription was found during renovation works by the rev. Bálint Mike, has 15 rovás-letters. The building of this church already existed in 1332-. The work of preservation of this find is still not complete.

Deszk: a ring with rovás inscription - from a cemetery of the Árpád age, grave no. 87. It is a silver band with ten framed rovás letters.

Erdõszentgyörgy: a rovás inscription.

Esztergom: a ring inscribed with rovás characters - Altogether six letters. It is now in the Balassa Museum of Esztergom, catalog no. 57.12.1

Énlak: rovás inscription, discovered by Balázs Orbán in 1864

Felsõszemeréd: a rovás inscription from the year 1482, discovered in 1968.

Firtosváralja: rovás inscription of Tászoktetõ- written onto stone blocks, presently it is located at the Székelyudvarhely Museum. Archeologist István Kovács photographed them in 1913; His essay „Tászoktetõi sziklakarcolatok" (Writings in stone at Tászoktetõ) was published in 1914 in Dolgozatok az Erdélyi Nemzeti Muzeum Érem és Régiségtárából V. 1914.l. 229-265. (Essays From The Department Of Numismatics And Antiquity Of The Erdély National Museum V. 1914.l. 229-265)

Gelence: rovás inscription of 1503-i found in a Roman Catholic church under plasterwork. It was not preserved.

Hódmezõvásárhely: ring with rovás inscription, found at Kenyeresér dûlõ, elektron ring. It is the property of József Senyei, resident of Hódmezõvásárhely. Twenty rovás-letters.

Homokmégy-Halom: grave no. 102. A bone instrument (bogozó) with two rovás letters. (István Erdélyi, as above).

Homoródkarácsonyfalva: a rovás inscription in the Unitarian church found on a block of stone within the church building, but the stone was not carved to be a part of this building. Dated to the 13th century, with 15 rovás letters. It was discovered by László Debreczeni in 1937, but it remained unpublished. István Szõke reported it as still existing in 1944.

Jánoshida-Tótkérpuszta: needleholders from the grave no. 228. It has rovás on three sides, and has zigzag decoration on one side. (István Erdélyi, as above).

Jászdózsa: needleholders, found in 1980, László Selmeczi's excavation.

Jászság: a copper rod with sixteen rovás letters which also correspond with the letters of the brass plate listed below. It is kept at the Hungarian National Museum no. 1852/5.61. Earlier it was part of a collection of Miklós Jankovich. It was first published by Károly Antal Fischer in 1889.

János Kájoni from the Franciscan order wrote down a rovás alphabet in 1673. Its original is not known.

Kecskemét: a brass plate with 15 rovás letters, presently at the Hungarian National Museum's Department of Antiquity.

Kismarton (today Eisenstadt, Austria) - spindle-button, with scratched in rovás. (István Erdélyi, as above).

Kiskörös-Cebepuszta: grave no. 20. It is a cylindrical, flattened needleholder. (István Erdélyi, as above).

Kiskörös-Vágóhíd: grave no. 1. Silver chalice with tamga-like rovás on its base. (István Erdélyi, as above).

Klárafalva: a ring with rovás, from grave no.6 dated to the Árpád-age. It was found in the yard of György Faragó, it is a silver, open band style ring with ten frames for the sixteen letters.

Konstantinápoly (Constantinople): rovás inscription by Tamás Keteji Székely written in 1515.

Környe: rovás inscription from grave no. 60 of the Avar cemetery. Nine rovás letters were carved onto the mid-portion of a bow. (István Erdélyi, as above).

Közép-ajta: rovás inscription, found in the „vén templom" (old church), written in "Scythan" characters.

Kunkerekegyháza: a ring with rovás inscription from a cemetery of the Árpád age, a silver band, excavated by Kálmán Szabó in 1932.

Ladánybene: a vessel from a Sarmatian grave with Hungarian text in rovás, excavated in 1909, published in the Yearbook of the Nyiregyháza Museum (table XI. XXXVI.).

Ladánybene: a ring with rovás from a cemetery of the Árpád age, a silver band with thirteen rovás characters. Excavated by Kálmán Szabó.

Lipcse (Leibzich): rovás alphabet from 1743.

Lõcse: a rovás text, dated "1619 Lõtse" on a yellowed paper with eight rovás characters. Prepared for publication by Géza Szepessy, the title of the manuscript: "Interesting data to the history of the Magyar rovás" („Érdekes adat a magyar rovásírás történetéhez."). Published by Dezsõ Csallány.

Margitsziget: Rovás inscription from the early 1920-s as a student prank accorcding to Gyula László archaeologist.

Marosvásárhely: rovás text from 1624, with 50 rovás characters, discovered by Ádám Dankovits, located in the Teleki-Bólyai Science Library, in a language book printed in Ingolstadt. It was published by Géza Ferenczi in 1981 in the journal "Mûvelõdés" .

Marsigli's rovás calendar, the longest example of the Erdély (Transylvanian) rovás-texts. It was first published in an article of Endre Veress in 1906 in the Magyar Könyvszemle.

Mezõberény: a ring with rovás, made of silver, site of excavation unknown, 7 rovás characters.

Nagykászon: rovás text, discovered in the Roman Catholic church, on the wall of the sanctuary, in the oldest part of the church behind the altar, with scratched in characters.

Nagyszentmiklós treasure, excavated in 1799. Presently in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The rovás characters of cup no. 21 are identical with the much later rovás inscriptions on Stephanus Rex's coins.

Nagyszombat: a map showing the Viking's American expedition. It may have been part of the Jesuit's library in Nagyszombat. Bergsland, a professor of the Oslo University called its inscription a "Magyar runa". Published in a periodical, the Magyar Történeti Szemle I.1. New York 1970. 92-96, reported by Géza Szepessy.

Nikolsburg: a rovás alphabet.

Parajd: an inscription on stone with 21 rovás characters, a text consisting of 78 rovás-letters, found in 1941.

Pomáz: rovás text of Klissza-domb, found among the ruins of a church built in the Middle Ages. Collected by István Erdélyi, 1960. Manuscript.

Pomáz-klissza: a ring with rovás, 16 characters.

Szarvas: needle holder, 58 rovás characters, found on April 27, 1983, first publication of the find in March of 1985.

Szekszárd-Palánk: grave no. 120, clay vessel (István Erdélyi as above).

Szentes-Felsõcsordajárás: grave no. 36, a thin plate made of bone (István Erdélyi, as above).

Szentes: cemetery, a thin bone platelet with rovás inscription, from an Avar grave, grave no.36, five rovás characters, excavated in 1905 by Gábor Csallány.

Szentmihály: rovás inscription, carved into stone, 13 characters from the 16th-17th century, found in the Reformed Church in 1972.

Székelyderzs: a brick with rovás, found in the Unitarian church 1929. During the war it was sent for safekeeping to Olthéviz, later it was sent back to Székelyderzs.

Székesfehérvár-Maroshegy: a ring with rovás inscription, ten characters from the 13th century, excavated on the Szücs lot in 1913.

Tászok-tetõ: rovás inscription. Se for further information under the heading of Firtosváralja.

Tokaj-region: rovás inscription, found in the storeroom of the Tokaj Museum, on a piece of gray slate, three rovás-signs. One of the signs is identical with the corresponding sign on the Nicholsburg calendar.

Vargyas: a melting crucible with rovás signs. This vessel was used for school demonstration purposes a few hundred years ago. Described in a publication in the October edition 1961 of the periodical Korunk.

Zakariás, János: a rovás letter from this Jesuit missionary who served in Peru. The letter was dated April 16, 1756. He used the rovás to maintain the secrecy of the letter. He called this type of script "the Hun-Székely script". Published by A. Jósa Museum, yearbook XII-XIV page 155).

[Note: the above author charted nearly two-thousand Avar excavation sites in Hungary. The Russian, Ukrainian, Kazachstani, Siberian archeological efforts found a smaller number, but very important grave sites with corresponding findings. For further information see the full text in the author's manuscript no. 3 at the Magyar Történelmi Társulat 1250 Budapest I. Uri u.51-53, and manuscript no. 6 at the Fõvárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár, Budapest VIII. Szabó Ervin tér l. Ed.]

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