Thracian, Roman and Bulgarian Artefacts
No less impressive than the Chalcolithic collection is the Hellenistic-era jewellery from Odyssos. On one gold earring, found in the grave of a Thracian lady from the fourth century BC, a superbly detailed figure of a winged Victory, clothed in wispy, billowing drapery, can be viewed through a magnifying lens. The assemblage of artefacts from the Roman period, meanwhile, provides vivid evidence of the city's high status and Romanized culture; strigils used by citizens to scrape themselves clean in the public baths, lamps decorated with gurning theatrical masks, fine surgical equipment and a fragment of a marble plaque carrying a public announcement of upcoming gladiatorial bouts, dated to AD 221. As well as documenting their comfortable lives, the museum's collections also record the deaths of the well-to-do in Roman Odyssos, with the finest display of Roman-period funerary sculpture in Bulgaria. Prominent Greek and Roman citizens were honoured with a tombstone depicting scenes of funeral feasts, usually showing the deceased reclining on a couch attended by a spouse, children and servants. Townsfolk of Thracian origin preferred a grave plaque decorated with a relief of the so-called Thracian horseman , the rider god whose worship became universal among the natives from the Hellenistic era onwards. Bulgarian gold and silver from the fourteenth century introduces a collection of medieval weaponry, jewellery , and fine pottery , including some later examples of colourful faience ware, imported from Venice and Asia Minor. The extensive collection of icons on the top floor inlcudes some high quality examples of the Tryavna school, and is complemented by a display of ecclesiastical plate and vestments.
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