The BOROVO Treasure

SILVER WITH GILT, FIRST HALF OF IV th C. BC.   The treasure was a gift given by the Odris king Kotis I ( 383 - 359 BC.)  to a local  Gethic ruler. It consists of five vessels, some of which are presented on the jug- rhyton. This fact allows a sugges- tion to be made that the treasure represents a ceremonial set, de- signed for those initiated into the mysteries aboout the Thracians' belief in immortality.

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Jug-rhyton, silver Decorated with images ordered in two friezes, one under the other, which encircle its entire surface. The central composition, a ritual feast in which Dionisis, his mother Semela, the Gethic God Zalmoxis, two eroses-cupbearers and an old Silen are participating, is situated on the lower frieze. On the upper one a Bacchus procession of singing and dancing maenads, silens and satyrs is presented. There is an dotted inscription on the jug's neck: KOTYOSEXBE

Rhyton, silver with gilt The long horn is decorated by profile vertical fluting. A plastic gilted orna- mental frieze passes over them, two ivy twigs with leaves and bunches meet in the center of the front part and a bird has alighted on the fluting.

The protome represents half a figure of an elegant sphinx. The lines of the face are regular, designed after the classic canons. Inscription: KOTYOSEGBE

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