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The exhibited necklace of beads originates from Funerary Complex No. 6 of Kurgan No. 4, excavated in 1982 by Dr. Habil. Eugen SAVA near the town of Taraclia. The beads were found in the chest area of the deceased, indicating that they had been worn as a necklace and had remained in their original position within the funerary assemblage.
The necklace consists of 11 elements made entirely of Egyptian faience. Eight of the beads are spherical and decorated with vertical incisions forming between 14 and 21 raised ribs. Their diameters range from 13 to 20 mm. Two additional elements are scarab representations measuring 23.5 × 19.5 mm, while the final component is a flattened cylindrical pendant bead featuring a central vertical groove and measuring 22 × 9 mm. The objects range in color from light blue to dark blue and violet hues, reflecting the natural deterioration and glaze variations characteristic of Egyptian faience.
Egyptian faience is an artificial quartz-based material coated with an alkaline glaze, typically blue or blue-green in color. It was widely used in Ancient Egypt and later spread throughout the Mediterranean and Pontic regions through trade networks. During the first centuries AD, such objects served as important indicators of cultural and economic contacts between the Mediterranean world and the communities of the North Pontic region.
Owing to its typological, technological, and symbolic characteristics, the Taraclia necklace is an exceptionally valuable artifact for the study of intercultural relations, the circulation of prestige goods, and the funerary practices of the Sarmatian communities during the first centuries AD (1st-2nd centuries AD).

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„Urbanism and Architecture”

April 18th – 24th, 2016

On the occasion of the International Day for Monuments and Sites the National Museum of History of Moldova opened an exhibition of urban projects on the re-use of the public space in downtown Chișinău. The projects on display were developed in the framework of the National contest of urbanism and architecture launched by the Embassy of France in Moldova, the Municipality of Chișinău and the Agency of Inspection and Restoration of Monuments.

The exhibition brings together 40 projects made by 17 urban architects who proposed ideas for developing the protected area, the pedestrian area - 31 august 1989 street, in the perimeter of streets Maria Cebotari and Alexandru Pușkin, and of the unprotected area, the Circus with the nearby area on Igor Vieru boulevard. The projects exhibited in the museum present several ideas on the rehabilitation and redevelopment of a section on 31 august 1989 street which is to be transformed into a pedestrian area, and the area of the Circus from Chișinău.

On April 19, at the exhibition opening, were announced the winners of the National Contest of urbanism and architecture. 1st Prize was awarded to the group of architects from Oberliht Association (Borozan Ina, Deleanu Toma, Moldovan Vlad, Vatamaniuc Andrei, Vrednic Stanislav, Us Vladimir, Sprînceana Vitalie) who drafted the project „Development of the protected area, 31 August 1989 street, in the perimeter of A. Pușkin and M. Cebotari streets - pedestrian area". 2nd Prize was awarded to the group of architects Burungiu Ion, Danciu Mihai-Ionuț, Lisnic Inesa and Prunici Ion for the project „Development of the unprotected area, public space - Circus from Chișinău and the nearby area from Renașterii Naționale boulevard". The Special Prize of the Jury was awarded to the group of architects from the Workshop of architecture design OLDARCHITECTURE.

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Necklace of Egyptian faience beads discovered at Taraclia

„Urbanism and Architecture”

April 18th – 24th, 2016

#Exhibit of the Month