#Exhibit of the Month

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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Journal „Tyragetia"

vol. VII [XXII], nr. 2

On finding of once lost building plates of the 15th century from the fortress of Belgorod

ISSN 1857-0240
E-ISSN 2537-6330

Андрей Красножон

On finding of once lost building plates of the 15th century from the fortress of Belgorod

Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. VII [XXII], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie

For many years four Moldavian plates of the 15th century from the walls of the fortress of Belgorod were considered lost. The earliest publications of these most important epigraphic monuments (in 1848, 1889, and 1901) have long been a source for periodization of the defense complex of medieval Belgorod for several generations of its researchers. Without access to the originals, researchers had to trust to published translations, drawings, and photographs (not the best quality). In the beginning of 2013 these plates have been found in the collections of the Kherson Regional Museum. Even the preliminary work with them already revealed a family coat of arms of Moldavian Ruler Alexander II, as well as the fact that one of the plates, contrary to popular opinion in historiography, is not related to the construction of the fortress, which violates the generally accepted ideas about the chronology of the monument.

List of illustrations:

Fig. 1. Plan of the Belgorod Fortress: a - number of towers; b - location of plates with dates.

Fig. 2. Drawing of the plate of 1452 (Войцеховский 1972, рис. 3).

Fig. 3. The plate of 1440. Collections of the Kherson Regional Museum/without number (photo by the author).

Fig. 4. The plate of 1454. Collections of the Kherson Regional Museum /without number (photo by the author).

Fig. 5. The plate of 1476. Collections of the Kherson Regional Museum /without number (photo by the author).

Fig. 6. The plate of 1478-1480. Collections of the Kherson Regional Museum /without number (photo by the author).

Светлана Иванова, Андрей Красножон, Олег Савельев

The “Primorsky Boulevard” multi-layered site in Odessa: from antiquity to the Middle Ages

Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. XV [XXX], nr. 1, Arheologie. Istorie Antică, Chişinău, 2021