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The PANAGYURISHTE Treasure |
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9 VESSELS, GOLD, END OF IV th - BEGINNING OF III rd C. BC. |
Found accidentially in 1949. Made of pure gold, weight of 6.164 kg. The
amphora-rhyton, the four rhytons shaped like animal heads or fore-parts
and decorated with mythological scenes, the three jugs-rhytons shaped
like women's heads and the phiale decorated with a black head and
 acorns compose aceremonial
set, possessed by a Thracian
king, probably Sevt III. The de-
signations on the phiale and
two of the vessels connect its
production with the name of
the town of Lampasak on the
Dardanelles. |
Monasteries
l Panagyurishte Tr.
Rogozen Treasure
Borovo Treasure
Letnitza Treasure
Thracian tombs
World's oldest gold
The Madara horseman
Old Bulgarian Capitals
Museum towns
Old fortresses
The Treasure from
Panagyurishte is kept
in the National Museum
of History in Sofia
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A M P H O R A - R H Y T O N, G O L D |
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On the edge of the mouth, profiled outwards, centaurs
shooting by bows have stepped. They form the handles,
developing into columns. The ovoid body is decorated by
a relief figured frieze between bands of palmethas. Seven
big men in hlamidas are presented. Some of them, on the
tramped appeal, attack with machairs an ornamented ga-
te, behind which an old man is peering. Others doing so-
me guesswork. Under the handles, on the bottom, there
are two heads of black people with opened mouths. There
is a silen with a beard with a double barrelled flute offering
a kantaros. On the other side is the Child Heracle with two
snakes in his hands.
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Shaped as a deer's head with an opening in the middle of the lower
lip. The eyes were encrusted by glass paste which was not preser-
ved. The neck is decorated with relief scenes. One of them: Tezei, in
a waved halmida, has thrown down the Marathon bull. The other one:
Heracle, in a lion's skin thrown on, has left the crook and holds the
base of the handle there is a relief woman's head and in the upper
end - a lion, stepping with his fore paws on the mouth. |
| J U G S - R H Y T O N S, G O L D |
Shaped like heads of women. One of them has a
helmet, decorated with relief presentations of gry-
phons and palmethas cut in. The hair of the other
two are veiled, set with stars and tied above the
forehead. They have necklaces of beads and pen-
dents formed in a relief. On each handle, shaped as
a fluted column, and on the mouth a sphynx, with
open wings and a necklace engraved on the neck
has stepped. The flowing openings are formed as
relief lion's heads.
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