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The ceramic vessel set was discovered accidentally in October 2025 in the southwestern part of the village of Bălceana, Hâncești District, approximately 1.2 km from the Lăpușnița River. The archaeological materials were recovered by the National Archaeological Agency.

The ceramic assemblage consists of a large storage vessel (pithos) with a capacity of 20 litres (h = 39.2 cm; d = 35.0 cm), decorated with a raised band below the rim; a medium-sized bowl with a capacity of 2.5 litres (h = 16.9 cm; d = 23.2 cm); a medium-sized jug with a capacity of 0.6 litres (h = 12.0 cm; d = 13.4 cm); and the base of a jar-shaped vessel.

The coarse handmade pottery was produced using the coil-building technique, by stacking and shaping coils of clay prepared from a paste tempered with crushed fired clay (grog) and sand. The vessel surfaces are uneven and covered with a yellowish-red slip featuring black patches, while the core of the vessel walls is black in colour.

The three vessels preserved intact display well-defined biconical shapes, with their maximum diameter at the middle of the body and straight or slightly oblique rims with rounded edges. Pottery of this type is characteristic of the Early Medieval cultural area of the northern and northwestern Black Sea region, dating from the 5th to the 7th centuries. East of the Dniester River, on the territory of present-day Ukraine, analogous pottery is found in Penkovka-type settlements, while in the Carpathian-Dniester region it is characteristic of settlements belonging to the Costișa-Botoșana-Hansca cultural group.

Within the Prut-Dniester region, coarse biconical pottery is generally represented by fragments and only relatively rarely by complete vessels, such as those discovered at Hansca, Dănceni, Recea, Seliște, Păhărniceni, and other sites. This type of pottery constituted an indispensable component of the local material culture during the 5th-7th centuries. In this context, the discovery at Bălceana of an almost intact set of coarse biconical vessels represents a relatively rare find of considerable scientific importance.

According to certain hypotheses, the tradition of coarse biconical pottery dating to the 5th-7th centuries originated in the North Pontic region. At the same time, it cannot be ruled out that these biconical ceramic vessels were the result of contemporary ethnocultural interactions, developing simultaneously across the vast territory extending from the Carpathian Mountains to the Dnieper River and the Seversky Donets.

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L’évolution de l’enseignement de lycée en Bessarabie sous la domination tsariste (1833-1917)
ISSN 1857-0240
E-ISSN 2537-6330

L’évolution de l’enseignement de lycée en Bessarabie sous la domination tsariste (1833-1917)

Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. II [XVII], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie

L’étude des sources d’archives inédites et de celles publiées, ainsi que de la littérature monographique de spécialité nous permet de conclure que l’enseignement de lycée en Bessarabie est étroitement lié au développement du système d’enseignement de l’Empire Russe. L’histoire de l’enseignement de lycée commence avec l’ouverture des premiers pensionnats où seulement les enfants de la noblesse pouvaient faire leurs études. Mais dans ces institutions d’enseignement, les élèves obtenaient des connaissances générales, les professeurs se préoccupaient plutôt des problèmes d’éducation, l’accent étant mis sur la formation du comportement qu’une personne devaient suivre dans la société. Bien sûr, de telles institutions de type fermé ne pouvaient pas satisfaire les exigences croissantes de la société; en plus elles n’assuraient pas aux émoulus de perspectives d’avenir.

Une autre étape dans le développement de l’enseignement de lycée en Bessarabie a constitué l’ouverture des ly- cées et des écoles secondaires. Ceux-ci ont été fondés en vertu du «statut des lycées et des écoles secondaires» du 19 novembre 1864. Les lycées étaient ordinairement des institutions privées. Les premiers lycées et écoles secon- daires ont été fondés dans les villes des districts: le lycée d’Akkerman, écoles secondaires en Bender, Bolgrad, Ismail, etc. Depuis 1864 jusqu’à l’union de la Bessarabie avec la Roumanie ont été déjà créées 17 lycées pour filles et 12 lycées pour garçons. L’accent y n’était plus mis sur l’éducation et on donnait la possibilité aux émoulus d’obtenir la permission de travailler en tant qu’enseignants dans les écoles primaires et ministérielles ou de continuer leurs études aux universités.

L’enseignement de lycée en Bessarabie est apparu et s’est développé essentiellement grâce aux efforts de certaines personnes particulières et des institutions de zemstva, les lycées étant fondés dans la ville de Chisinau. Ensuite, grâce à l’activité de ces personnes, de la zemstva gouberniale et des zemstvas de district, des institutions d’enseignement secondaire sont apparues dans d’autres districts de la Bessarabie, notamment dans les villes des districts Akkermann, Bender, Balti, Hotin, etc.

L’analyse du matériel des faits, notamment celui inédit des archives, nous permet de conclure que pendant la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle – la début du XXe siècle se passe la constitution du système d’enseignement de lycée, la croissance du nombre et du contingent des élèves. Le développement de l’enseignement de lycée en Bessarabie dans le cadre de l’Empire Russe démontre explicitement les conséquences néfastes de la politique tsariste d’uniformisation, direction centralisée et bureaucratique du système d’enseignement aux périphéries nationales, fait qui constituait un obstacle au développement de la culture nationale de ces peuples. Ce procès s’est manifesté par la limitation et ensuite l’exclusion de la langue roumaine de tous les domaines officiels et fonctionnels, la suppression de l’école nationale, l’ignorance des traditions nationales dans le processus d’instruction qui ont mené à la décadence de la langue littéraire roumaine dans la région.

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Development of secondary education in Bessarabia in 1833-1871
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. VIII [XXIII], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
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Legislative basis of secondary education in the Russian Empire in the modern era
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. V [XX], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
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School of exact science activity in Chișinău in period of 1873-1918
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. IV [XIX], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
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From the history of a private school for girls in Bălți
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. VII [XXII], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
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Some considerations on the evolution of secular and religious education in Bessarabia in the 19th century - beginning of the 20th century
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The National Museum of History of Moldova takes place among the most significant museum institutions of the Republic of Moldova, in terms of both its collection and scientific reputation.
©2006-2026 National Museum of History of Moldova
Visit museum 31 August 1989 St., 121 A, MD 2012, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
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The National Museum of History of Moldova takes place among the most significant museum institutions of the Republic of Moldova, in terms of both its collection and scientific reputation.
©2006-2026 National Museum of History of Moldova
Visit museum 31 August 1989 St., 121 A, MD 2012, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Phones:
Secretariat: +373 (22) 24-43-25
Department of Public Relations and Museum Education: +373 (22) 24-04-26
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E-mail: office@nationalmuseum.md
Technical Support: info@nationalmuseum.md
Web site administration and maintenance: Andrei EMILCIUC