Inscription on a waxed tablet from Novgorod

The paper proposes interpretation of a poorly preserved inscription in one of the waxed tablets found in the Troitsky excavation trench that has not yet been analyzed. The examination of the inscription helped identify an Old Russian name for waxed writing tablets, which is dshchitsa. Besides, the use of such tablets for making debt records and identity the tablets as debt instruments mentioned in the chronicles as well as debt records on waxed tablets were doc-umented.