Karnobat History Museum to Present Its Most Valuable Exhibit in US

Dimitrina Solakova, Maya Stefanova

Karnobat History Museum Director Rositsa Hristova (BTA Photo/Maya Stefanova)

Karnobat, Southeastern Bulgaria,

31.10.2024 08:41

(BTA)

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The History Museum of Karnobat will presents its most valuable artefact - a red-figure jug with the image of Thracian warriors from the 5th century BC - at the exhibition Ancient Thrace and the Classical World: Treasures from Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece, which will be unveiled at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles on November 3. Participating are over 14 museums from Bulgaria with more than 150 artefacts.

The red-figure jug was discovered in 1996 after the police caught the tomb robbers who had compromised a grave in the Gyaur Mound, Dr. Rositsa Hristova, Director of the Atanas Karastoyanov History Museum in Karnobat, told BTA's Maya Stefanova. It is the most significant and valuable find in the archaeological exposition of the Atanas Karastoyanov History Museum in Karnobat. "We do not have any other artefact that arouses such interest and has such popularity. In fact, the black-glaze jug travels constantly and participates in exhibitions all over the world and rarely stays for long in Karnobat, where it is displayed for visitors only on special occasions and during visits of dignitaries," she explained.

The jug is similar to the one owned by the Archaeological Museum in Sozopol, which, as BTA reported, will also be part of the upcoming exhibition in Los Angeles. There are a lot of similarities between the two, but also some differences, and the images of both give scientists important information about the equipment, clothing and appearance of Thracian warriors, about whom before their discovery there was only written evidence, Hristova said.

The exhibition Ancient Thrace and the Classical World: Treasures from Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles will open on November 3 and run until March 3, 2025. The objects from Bulgaria represent over 90% of all exhibits included in the exhibition, as the core of the ancient Thracian lands overlap with the territory of present-day Bulgaria. Artefacts from Greece and Romania are also included for the first time in such an exposition.

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