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).
Pages from the history of the Theological Seminar from Chisinau
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. III [XVIII], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
One of metropolitan Gavriil Bănulescu-Bodoni’s constant concerns in the new diocese of Chișinău and Hotin was organizing the Theological Seminar from Chișinău. Being convinced of support for his initiative from the Sankt Petersburg Saint Synod, the metropolitan had already issued on the 30th September 1813 a decree which set the basis for its establishment. 10 pupils had been enrolled by the Seminar’s opening day – the 31st January 1813 –, 5 of them being from clergy families.
The Seminar’s study program provided several compulsory subjects: logic, rhetoric, philosophy, religion, history, geography and mathematics. The Romanian, Russian, Greek and Latin languages were taught as well; French and German being facultative. The project elaborated by metropolitan Gavriil stipulated, among others, that the „Moldovan” language had a priority role because was the language in which the future clergy had to officiate the divine service. Each seminar class had 22 hours: 12 hours in the preparation classes and 10 in the „grammatical” ones. Then followed Greek with 20 hours, Russian and Latin (wit 18 hours in each class), and mathematics with only 10 hours.
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 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.
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.
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.
31 August 1989 St., 121 A, MD 2012, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
