Engineering:Borovo Treasure
Template:Infobox Artifact The Borovo Treasure, also known as the Borovo Silver Treasure, is a Thracian[1][2] hoard of five matching silver-gilt items discovered in late 1974 while ploughing a field in Borovo, Bulgaria.[3][4]
The treasure is kept in the history museum at Ruse.[1]
Items
The treasure consists of a table set of five silver-gilt items:[1][2]
- Three rhyta, each a different size, and with a different base. The largest has a figure of a sphinx and bears the inscription: "[Belongs to] Cotys from [the town of] Beos.", as well as the name of the craftsman, Etbeos.[5] The second has a figure of a horse, and the third, the smallest, has a bull. Each are half figures.
- A large, two-handled bowl: This item is decorated with a relief of a deer being attacked by a griffin.[6]
- A rhyta jug with images gods at a feast, scenes showing the mythological cycles, with images of Dionysus and Heracles, satyrs, griffons, and sphinxes.[4]
Discovery
The discovery was made while ploughing a field approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the village of Borovo, Ruse, in Bulgaria. Unfortunately, the plow severely damaged objects, but after extensive restoration work, the damage is nearly invisible.[1][2][6]
It is unknown why the treasure was buried at that particular site since no tumulus was found at the location.[6]
Origins
The inscription on the sphinx rhyta indicates that the treasure may have been a gift to a local Getic ruler from the king Cotys I (382-359 BC),[4] who reigned in the Odrysian Kingdom from 383 to 359 BC.[6] It is for this reason that the treasure is considered to be from the early to mid fourth century BC.[1][2][4][6]
Gallery
See also
- Persian-Sassanid art patterns
- Thraco-Cimmerian
- Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós
- Zoomorphic style
Other Thracian treasures:
- Panagyurishte Treasure
- Rogozen Treasure
- Valchitran Treasure
- Lukovit Treasure
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Borovo Treasure - Landmarks/Treasures - BulgariaInside.com". Bulgariainside.eu. 2010-03-24. http://www.bulgariainside.eu/en/articles/Borovo-Treasure/245/index.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "The Borovo silver treasure | Ancient Treasures, Ancient Thracians". Ancient-treasure.info. http://ancient-treasure.info/thracian-treasures/borovo-silver-treasure.html.
- ↑ Ovcharov, Dimiter (2005). "The Borovo Treasure: A Feast Eating or Sacrificial Set". Fifteen Treasures from Bulgarian Lands. Sofia: Bulgarian Bestseller, National Museum of Books and Polygraphy. pp. 49.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Bulgaria's Thracian Heritage - The Borovo Treasure". Omda.bg. http://www.omda.bg/engl/history/borovo_treasure.htm.
- ↑ Marazov, Ivan; Fol, Alexander (1977). Thrace and the Thracians. New York: St. Martin’s Press. pp. 79, 81. https://archive.org/stream/thracethracians00folarich#page/n5/mode/2up. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "Borovo Treasure". Heritage Key. http://heritage-key.com/world/borovo-treasure.
Further reading
- Venedikov, Ivan (1977). "The Archaeological Wealth of Ancient Thrace". The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 35 (1): 7–71. via- Met Publications
- "Treasure found at the village of Borovo (Rousse District); First Half of the Fourth Century B.C., District Museum of History, Rousse". Thracian Treasures from Bulgaria: Checklist of The Special Exhibition, June 11 - September 4, 1977, coordinated by Dietrich von Bothmer, items 288-292. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1977. http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/pageflip/collection/p15324coll10/id/199423/type/compoundobject/show/199379/cpdtype/document/pftype/image#page/12/mode/2up. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- Eisenberg, Jerome M. (January 1998). "The Wealth of the Thracians: A Spectacular Exhibitions of Thracian Treasures Travelling America". The International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology - MINERVA 9 (1): 16. http://minervamagazine.co.uk/archive_pdfs/1998_Vol_9_01.pdf. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- Valeva, Julia (2015). "Chapter 14: Gold, Silver and Bronze Vessels". A Companion to Ancient Thrace. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 198, 201-202, 204.
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