Bulgaria's Thracian Heritage
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The Borovo Treasure |
the borovo treasure The treasure from Borovo was found in the late 1974. It is a splendid table set of five silver-and-gilt utensils: three rhyta, shaped at the base in the form of half-figures: of a horse, a bull, and a sphinx; a big bowl with two handles, and a rhyton jug with images of deities enjoying a feast, scenes from the mythological cycles with Dionysus and Heracles, sphinxes, satyrs and griffons. The finding has been dated to the first half of the fourth century BC. There is an inscription on the sphinx-headed rhyton reading as follows: "[Belongs to] Cotys from [the town of] Beos." This sign gives grounds to assume that the treasure set was a gift from the king of Thrace Cotys I (382-359 BC) to a local Getic ruler. Both the historical sources and the archaeological findings prove the popularity of ritual gift giving in ancient Thrace.
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The Mogilanska Mogila Treasure
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