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To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși, 2026 was declared by the President of Romania the Year of Constantin Brâncuși. Constantin Brâncuși, one of the greatest sculptors of the twentieth century, was born in 1876 in Hobița, Gorj County, and passed away in 1957 in Paris; he was buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery. In 1904 he arrived in Paris, where he attended courses at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. There he also worked in the studio of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), the founder of modern sculpture, and met Amadeo Modigliani (1884-1920), the Italian sculptor settled in France. Inspired by the work of these artists, he perfected his artistic training in Paris. His works are held in museums both at home and abroad, in the Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries, France, and the United States of America. For his outstanding merits he was awarded the Order of the Star of Romania in 1923; in 1931 Nicolae Iorga proposed him for the Order of Cultural Merit; and only in 1990 was he posthumously elected a member of the Romanian Academy.
One of the artist's most famous creations is the sculpture Mademoiselle Pogany, considered a national symbol of modern Romanian art. Its protagonist was Margaret Pogany (1879-1964), a young Hungarian painter who came to Paris in 1909 to study painting techniques. Visiting her studio, she asked the sculptor to make her portrait, even leaving him a photograph and a self-portrait. In 1911 Brâncuși sculpted her likeness from memory in marble and in bronze, focusing on the deep, large, almond-shaped eyes, the subdued eyebrows, the narrow nose, the small mouth, the austere hairstyle and the modest gesture of the hands, rested against the face. Between 1912 and 1933 he produced nineteen versions of Mademoiselle Pogany.

The commemorative medal "Constantin Brâncuși (1876-1976). Expoziție Filatelică Omagială - București 1976" was struck in Romania at the State Mint by the engraver Ștefan Grudinschi. Executed in bronze with a diameter of 60 mm and a weight of 113.73 g, the medal is remarkable for its memorial and artistic value. Obverse: the sculptor's bust facing left, with the semicircular legend "CONSTANTIN BRÂNCUȘI - 1876-1976." Reverse: a fragment of the triptych The Gate of the Kiss. Semicircular legend: "EXPOZIȚIA FILATELICĂ OMAGIALĂ - BUCUREȘTI 1976."
The medal "Constantin Brâncuși. Mademoiselle Pogany. Craiova Art Museum. 1987" was also executed in bronze at the State Mint (Bucharest); it has a nominal diameter of 60 mm (because of the circular cutting the actual dimensions are D: 45 mm; weight: 53.55 g). The obverse shows, in the central field, an image of the Craiova Art Museum framed by the semicircular legend "MUZEUL DE ARTĂ - CRAIOVA / 1987." The reverse depicts a replica of the sculpture Mademoiselle Pogany made by Brâncuși's pupil O. Moșescu, accompanied by the inscription "CONSTANTIN BRÂNCUȘI - M-elle POGANY / 1913."

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Journal „Tyragetia"

vol. VIII [XXIII], nr. 1

Complex of antique amphorae of the 1st half of the 6th century BC from the pit no. 11 of the “ashpit” no. 13 of the Western Bilsk Fortification

ISSN 1857-0240
E-ISSN 2537-6330

Станислав Задников

Complex of antique amphorae of the 1st half of the 6th century BC from the pit no. 11 of the “ashpit” no. 13 of the Western Bilsk Fortification

Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. VIII [XXIII], nr. 1, Arheologie. Istorie Antică

This publication presents materials from a closed complex in the "ashpit" no. 13 of the Western Bilsk fortified settlement. In the fi lling of one of the pits there were found 285 fragments of antique amphorae. Among them it was possible to identify fragments of 13 Klazomenian amphorae and one Milesian amphora. We divided all fragments of rims belonging to the Klazomenian amphorae into 3 variants. In our opinion, all the considered fragments of amphorae could fi nd the closest analogies among the vessels of the 1st half of the 6th century BC.

List of illustrations:

Fig. 1. Bilsk settlement location: 1 - View of the Northern Black Sea region with the location of the Bilsk settlement; 2 - ancient settlement in Bilsk; 3 - the plan of the western fortification with locations of "ashpits".
Fig. 2. Plan and profile of the pit number 11 of the "ashpit" 13. Western fortifi cation of the Bilsk settlement.
Fig. 3. Fragments of antique amphorae, pieces of clay plastering, walls of pots, and bones of animals in the filling of pit number 11. View from the west. "Ashpit" number 13. Western fortifi cation of the Bilsk settlement: 1 - filling of the top of the pit; 2 - filling of the bottom of the pit.
Fig. 4. Accumulations in the pit number 11 of the "ashpit" 13, the Western fortifi cation of the Bilsk settlement: 1 - accumulation in the western part of the pit; 2 - accumulation in the eastern part of the pit.
Fig. 5. Fragments of rims of the Klazomenian transport amphorae from the accumulation in the pit number 11 of the "ashpit" 13, the Western fortifi cation of the Bilsk settlement: 1-6 - fragments from accumulation; 7 - fragment of a rim found on the bottom of the pit.
Fig. 6. Fragments of the Klazomenian transport amphorae from the accumulation in pit number 11 of the "ashpit" 13, the Western fortifi cation of the Bilsk settlement: 1, 2, 4-15 - fi ndings from the accumulation; 3, 16 - finds from the bottom of the pit. 1-6 - rims of amphorae; 7-8 - feet of amphorae; 9-16 - fragments of handles.
Fig. 7. Fragments of amphorae from the accumulation in the pit number 11 of the "ashpit" 13, the Western fortification of the Bilsk settlement: 1-5, 7, 8 - Klazomenian amphorae, 6 - Milesian amphorae. 1-5 - fragments of handles; 5 - fragment of a neck; 6 - fragment of a rim.
Fig. 8. Klazomenian transport amphora's wall decorated with red stripes from the accumulation in the pit number 11 of the "ashpit" 13, the Western fortifi cation of the Bilsk settlement.
Fig. 9. Table of rims of the Klazomenian transport amphorae from the pit number 11 of the "ashpit" 13, the Western Bilsk Fortifi cation.