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it does not make the office synonymous with Mostich.", "Identification depends on historical title evidence and Bulgarian institutional context, rather than resemblance to a modern military rank.", "A proposed translation such as an interior-related office must be distinguished from evidence establishing actual jurisdiction.", "Claims of fixed precedence or permanent command duties require evidence beyond the title's occurrence." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Attested title form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Original-script reading; transliteration; editorial normalization; proposed equivalent", "why_it_matters": "Allows variant spellings to be reconciled without treating uncertain readings as established synonyms." }, { "name": "Historical attestation interval", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Year or bounded date range CE, with dating basis and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Separates the date of a surviving witness from the period of service it describes." }, { "name": "Officeholder tenure", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Person linked to office, ruler and evidenced service interval", "why_it_matters": "Keeps the institution separate from the people who occupied it." }, { "name": "Attributed responsibility", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Military; 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historians study it.", "master_systems": [] }, "what_it_is_for": [ "The title is encountered in inscriptions and historical scholarship concerning the court and military organisation of the First Bulgarian Empire.", "It is used to discuss officeholders and their relationship to the ruler, while the supplied reference to a Belgian empire is a geographical error." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Confusing the Bulgarian title with a supposed Belgian office can propagate false historical records and catalogue links.", "Treating uncertain reconstructions of the office as settled facts can misrepresent the authority and activities of its holders." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "interfaces": "No applicable contemporary standard, law or official classification governs this historical office as a catalogue concept.", "recognition": "A historical office is an abstract social role and has no reliable visual identifiers independent of contextual evidence." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q833692: Ichirgu-boil", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q833692", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Ichirgu-boila", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichirgu-boila", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "title-and-office-identity", "name": "Title and office identity", "description": "Establishes which historical designations belong to Ichirgu-boil and what kind of institutional entity they identify.", "rationale": "The registry supplies no definition, and spelling or translation alone cannot establish the office's boundaries.", "layers": [ { "id": "historical-title-forms", "name": "Historical title forms", "description": "Preserves written forms and the evidence connecting them.", "findings": [ { "id": "title-equivalence", "name": "Evidenced title equivalence", "description": "Record Ichirgu-boil, proposed variants and historical readings separately until an inscription edition or scholarly argument supports their equivalence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which original-script forms and transliterations are securely identified with Ichirgu-boil?", "kind": "definition", "id": "title-equivalence-q01" }, { "text": "Which edition or linguistic argument supports each proposed equivalence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "title-equivalence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutional-boundaries", "name": "Institutional boundaries", "description": "Separates the particular office from wider aristocratic categories and neighbouring offices.", "findings": [ { "id": "office-versus-status", "name": "Office versus aristocratic status", "description": "Treat the relationship between Ichirgu-boil, the broader boil designation and other offices as a historical question rather than a modern occupational classification.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence distinguishes Ichirgu-boil from the broader boil title?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "office-versus-status-q01" }, { "text": "Does each source describe an office, a dignity, or a combination of the two?", "kind": "definition", "id": "office-versus-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "attestations-and-interpretation", "name": "Attestations and interpretation", "description": "Connects claims about Ichirgu-boil to surviving witnesses and identifiable interpretations.", "rationale": "Sparse historical evidence makes the distinction between a title occurrence and reconstructed duties essential.", "layers": [ { "id": "material-witnesses", "name": "Material witnesses", "description": "Identifies inscriptions and their archaeological and editorial contexts.", "findings": [ { "id": "mostich-inscription-anchor", "name": "Mostich inscription anchor", "description": "The National Archaeological Institute with Museum identifies a funerary inscription of Ichirgu-Boil Mostich at Preslav, providing an attestation anchor rather than a complete definition of the office. [Museum account](https://naim.bg/en/content/exhibits/51/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which published reading establishes the title in Mostich's funerary inscription?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "mostich-inscription-anchor-q01" }, { "text": "What date range applies to the inscription, and how does it differ from the service period it commemorates?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "mostich-inscription-anchor-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interpretive-confidence", "name": "Interpretive confidence", "description": "Separates statements in historical witnesses from later reconstructions.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-specific-support", "name": "Claim-specific support", "description": "An attestation of the title does not by itself establish command scope, court precedence or appointment procedure.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which claims about Ichirgu-boil are explicit in a historical witness, and which are scholarly deductions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "claim-specific-support-q01" }, { "text": "When interpretations conflict, what wording can the agent retain without presenting either as settled?", "kind": "action", "id": "claim-specific-support-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "holders-and-tenure", "name": "Holders and tenure", "description": "Models occupancy of the office through named holders and evidenced service boundaries.", "rationale": "Evidence about one holder must not silently become a rule governing the institution.", "layers": [ { "id": "holder-identification", "name": "Holder identification", "description": "Associates people with the office only where the identification is supported.", "findings": [ { "id": "person-office-link", "name": "Person-to-office attribution", "description": "Maintain separate identities for the office and each alleged holder, with support for both the title attribution and the person's identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which named people are directly attested as Ichirgu-boil, and which are proposed identifications?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "person-office-link-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence permits two differently written personal names to be treated as the same officeholder?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "person-office-link-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "service-and-departure", "name": "Service and departure", "description": "Records relationships to rulers and evidence for the beginning or ending of tenure.", "findings": [ { "id": "tenure-without-invented-succession", "name": "Bounded tenure reconstruction", "description": "Represent service intervals, continuance across reigns and departure only to the precision supported; gaps do not establish vacancy or direct succession.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which reigns or dated events bound each holder's service?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "tenure-without-invented-succession-q01" }, { "text": "Does evidence for a holder's departure establish a general tenure rule or only that individual's experience?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "tenure-without-invented-succession-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authority-and-historical-change", "name": "Authority and historical change", "description": "Tests reconstructions of military responsibility, court standing and change over time.", "rationale": "A useful model must qualify what the office empowered its holder to do without imposing a stable modern job description.", "layers": [ { "id": "military-and-territorial-remit", "name": "Military and territorial remit", "description": "Examines proposed command responsibilities and their geographical reach.", "findings": [ { "id": "command-remit-hypotheses", "name": "Command remit hypotheses", "description": "Treat proposed capital-garrison, field-command or interior responsibilities as claims requiring individual evidence, rather than interchangeable definitions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source supports each proposed command responsibility of an Ichirgu-boil?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "command-remit-hypotheses-q01" }, { "text": "Does a recorded military action demonstrate a standing duty of the office or a particular assignment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "command-remit-hypotheses-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "court-standing-and-continuity", "name": "Court standing and continuity", "description": "Qualifies relationships to other offices and tests whether they persisted across reigns.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-precedence", "name": "Dated precedence and institutional continuity", "description": "Record proposed rank relative to the ruler and kavhan with its evidential basis and period; 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