„Tovărășia” (1906-1911) – periodical with co-operative profile of Romanians from Transylvania
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. I [XVI], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie Chișinău, 2007
The appearance and the role of „Tovărășia” periodical, at the beginning of the 20th Century inscribes into the con- text of the growing concern for promoting and implementing the ideas and principles of universal co-operations into the Romanian society from Transylvania, especially in the rural economic space.
Edited and mostly done by the economist Vasile C. Osvada, one of greatest and representative figures of the Romanian co-operative movement and action from Transylvania, „Tovărășia” periodical imposed itself as one of the most representative co-operative periodicals, succeeding through its articles to evolve an efficient and extended co- operative propaganda, to permanently guide the establishment of different co-operative units, to give information and news about different areas of economic and social life in Transylvania.
Through the materials’ content, „Tovărășia” periodical meant a lot more than a mood and debates about viable economic opinions and solutions for the Romanian society, being a real laboratory where the ideas of a co-operative original economic literature got a form, underlining the Romanian specialists’ contribution to develop and materialize the universal co-operative movement, and especially from the Romanian space.
Therefore, the periodical was one of the most active and important factors of Romanian co-operativism at the beginning of the 20th Century, seen as one of the most efficient and dynamical vectors in the modernization and edification process of economic structures in the Romanian national area from Transylvania.
The item is the lower part of a leg of a festive table made of white and gray marble. In the upper part, it has a protrusion, similar to a Doric capital, on the horizontal platform of which a square recess is engraved, designed to fix the second part of the leg (upper). The lower part of the leg is made in an anthropomorphic style, and, in our opinion, there are two variants of identifying the depicted character...
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 item is the lower part of a leg of a festive table made of white and gray marble. In the upper part, it has a protrusion, similar to a Doric capital, on the horizontal platform of which a square recess is engraved, designed to fix the second part of the leg (upper). The lower part of the leg is made in an anthropomorphic style, and, in our opinion, there are two variants of identifying the depicted character. The first involves the image of the head of the young Heracles (Heracles - Ἡρακλῆς) (beardless), the most favorite hero of antiquity, wearing on his head the skin of the Nemean lion - Λέων της Νεμέας, a vicious monster from Greek mythology who lived in Nemea and was eventually killed by Heracles. The first labor of Heracles, of the twelve set by King Eurystheus (his cousin), was to kill the Nemean lion and bring his skin to the king. It is also known from Greek mythology that the lion of Nemea took the form of a beautiful woman in order to seduce the inhabitants of neighboring villages, who wanted to save the girl from danger. Upon entering the cave, a man saw the woman, who usually pretended to be wounded, and rushed to help her. When he approached her, the woman turned into a lion and killed him. Then the lion devoured the man, giving his bones to Hades - ᾍδης, the god of Hell, who lived in the kingdom of shadows. The second version of the anthropomorphic image interpretation suggests Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia in the second half of the 4th century BC, one of the most famous heroes of the Greek world, who sometimes is depicted as Hercules - wearing a lion's skin. Some researchers consider the custom of wearing the skin of a slain lion a sign of royal power. The word βασιλεύς itself, translated from ancient Greek, means "walking the path of the lion", that is, the king. This title was held by the Greek kings from the Homeric period, and later, starting from the 7th century AD - by the Byzantine emperors.
