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The 21 beads form part of a bronze hoard found in 2019 within a forested area close to the town of Nisporeni. Alongside the beads, the hoard included numerous bronze ornaments (2 Röschitz-Sanislău-type fibulae, 7 necklaces, 12 rings, 22 tubes, 23 bracelets, and approximately 80 appliqués), one coral bead and a pendant made from a wild animal's tooth. At present, the amber beads are preserved in the collections of the Muzeul Național de Istorie a Moldovei, while the remainder of the hoard is in the possession of a private collector.
The hoard was discovered accidentally in a pit about 50 cm deep. The objects in this hoard are of Western origin, with known parallels in archaeological complexes from Poland, Hungary, Serbia, and Slovakia, and, to a lesser extent, in Romania. The presence of this bronze hoard on the territory of the Republic of Moldova illustrates the cultural dynamics of the region during the Early Iron Age and a fundamental shift in the vector of cultural influences from east to west.

The amber bead strand comprises 16 whole beads and five fragmentary ones. They have an elongated biconical shape and vary in size. The beads are brown-reddish in color; their lengths range from 1.1 to 3.1 cm, widths from 0.6 to 1.4 cm, thicknesses from 0.6 to 1.1 cm, and the perforation diameter ranges between 0.2 and 0.3 cm.
Amber beads appear in several bronze hoards dated to the Late Bronze Age in the eastern half of Slovakia and in Transdanubian Hungary. Parallels are also known from the Cioclovina Cave in Romania. With the onset of the Iron Age, amber items disappear from the Carpathian Basin for approximately 300 years, reappearing alongside the arrival of Scythian elements.
The bronze hoard discovered at Nisporeni is dated to the HaA2-HaB1-2 interval (1050/1000 - 800/750 B.C.).

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13th Symposium of Heraldry

24 April 2019

The 13th Symposium of heraldry will be held at the National Museum of History of Moldova (31 August 1989, no. 121 A, Chisinau) on April 24, 2019, starting at 10 AM .The symposium is organized by the Society for Genealogy, Heraldry and Archives "Paul Gore" in partnership with the National Heraldry Commission working under the President of the Republic of Moldova and the National Museum of History of Moldova.

Traditionally, in the program will be included 5 to 9 papers focusing on heraldry, vexilology, phaleristics, sigilography, uniformology and other connected sciences studying historical symbols, especially related to the history of Prut and Nistru interfluve.

Travel, accommodation and board are borne by the participants.

The symposium is held in Romanian language, but papers in Russian, French, English are also accepted with the condition of distribution of abstracts in Romanian among the participants. For each paper are reserved up to 30 minutes, of which 20 minutes are intended for presentation and 10 for discussions. Presentations in PowerPoint are welcome, which may also include abstracts in Romanian of papers presented in other languages. Please consider the possibility of publication in the yearly book "Heraldica Moldaviae" when writing and editing the papers.

All scholars interested to participate at the symposium should send the title of the presentation and an abstract in Romanian of up to 2000 signs to one of the e-mail addresses: silviu_tabac@yahoo.fr or anaboldureanu@yahoo.com. The deadline for submission of titles and abstracts is April 1, 2019 at 12.00.

For more information, please contact us at the same email addresses or phone numbers:
022-251-022, 0-693-78-619 - Silviu TABAC;
022-238-285, 0-681-17-146 - Ana BOLDUREANU.

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#Exhibit of the Month

Exhibit of the Month Amber beads from a bronze hoard discovered near the town of Nisporeni

13th Symposium of Heraldry

24 April 2019

#Exhibit of the Month