The ROGOZEN Treasure

In the Thracians' land numerous treasures were found. Some of them were put simply in the ground without any traces of a necropolis, a settlement or a sanctuary. The biggest and the richest treasure from that period found till now, the Rogozen Treasure, was a possession of the dynasty court of the Triballoi. It consists of 165 vessels collected by several gene- rations from the middle of V th C. till the middle of IV th C. BC.  J U G S,    S I L V E R    W I T H    G I L T,   IV th C. BC. The mouth's edge is curved outwards and profiled. They have a relief band decorated with ovouls or kima in the nesk's base. The handles are shaped in a different way, de- corated by helixes and pal- methas and by a wild boar's head in one of the cases. The common feature for this type is the decoration of the body. It consists of relief lotus blossoms with a point curved outwards, as if the vessels comes ot of a lotus flower. With some of the jugs this pattern was not considered and therefore was shaped conditionally.

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J U G S,    S I L V E R    W I T H    G I L T,   IV th C. BC.

They have a profiled edge of the mouth and curved outwards. Some of them are bigger. Their decoration varies from a relief band of ovuls to co- verage of the entire body, with bands of notches, ovuls, leaf-like concaves, fluting, bows, dots, bulged and cut in patterns.

P H I A L E S,     F I R S T    H A L F   O F   V th C. BC.

Phiale, silver with gilt Flat shape, a decorative band is displayed around the umbo - ten radially placed almonds, flanked by lotus blossoms with three leaves. Most probably the phiate was produced in Halkidika and belongs to the earliest vessels of the treasure.

Phiale, silver with gilt A flat phiale with a double bottom, the outer side decorated with an eight-leaved rosette and lotus blossoms and palmethas around it.

On the inner side a medallion was soldered in frames of ovoules. The figured scene presents the popular myth about the raping of the Tegey Princess Auge, Athene's priestess, by Heracle.

J U G S,     F I R S T    H A L F   O F   IV th C. BC.

Jug, silver with gilt. In the upper part of the jug a frieze of ram's heads in a high relief is presented. A scene is shown below, illustrating the myth about Belerofon and Himera. Preserved are: part of the lion's body of Himera, a bearded goat's head coming out of the back, and the tail ending in a snake's head. The figure of a winged horse is recognized across it, as well as a human foot and a hand (Belerofon). Behind Himera are: an eagle with a snake in its bill, a gryphon-sphynx and a lioness. Two deers are sees below.

Jug, silver with gilt The neck is separated from the body by a stripe of ovouls, the handle is attached to the body throught a palmetha and to the neck - through a helix.

One and the same scene is repeated on both sides of the jug - a lion attacking a doe. The lion's maneis presented by futfs like flames, the head is in full face. The doe's body is covered by notches, marking its short fur.

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