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Exhibition "Treasures from the Black See..."
Cracow, National Museum, March 18 - June 4, 2006
languages: Polski  / English 
 

The exhibition "Treasures from the Black Sea. Gold, sculpture and ceramics from the Museum of Archaeology in Odessa" is one of the key features of the Year of Ukraine in Poland, and the second part of the Odessa-Krakow Project initiated by the National Museum in Cracow. It includes over 500 top-value objects drawn from the holdings of the renowned Museum of Archaeology in Odessa.

The exhibition "Treasures from the Black Sea is one of the key features of the Year of Ukraine in Poland, and the second part of the Odessa-Krakow Project initiated by the National Museum in Cracow.

Diadem, gold, garnets, 5th century AD

This installation includes over 500 top-value objects drawn from the holdings of the renowned Museum of Archaeology in Odessa. Founded more than 180 years ago, it has amassed superb historical objects that originate not only from the areas of prehistoric and ancient settlements and burial grounds located along the northern coast of the Black Sea but also from the territories of the entire ancient Mediterranean civilisation, from Greece to Italy (e.g. Etruria) or Cyprus.

Gold stater, Pantikapaion, 4th century BC
Carriage with a coachman, clay, 1st-2nd century AD

On view in Cracow is a lustrous display of unique gold artefacts from a number of epochs - normally kept in the Treasury of the Odessa Museum: items of jewellery, vessels, elements of dress, caparison or weapons, as well as other objects of precious metals, among them rare and beautiful ancient coins of great value.

Head of a youth, limestone, end of a 7th century BC, Cyprus
Attic amphora, 6th century BC
Fibula (buckle), silver, 7th century AD

The oldest showpieces, such as painted ceramics or miniature human and animal figures, date back to the Copper Age and the Early Bronze Age (5th-3rd centuries BC), while the youngest - a stone Viking stele and a group of Polovtsy (Cuman) biddies - are datable to 11th-13th centuries AD.

Cult vessel, bronze, 1st century BC - 2nd century AD
Vessel from Cyprus in a shape of a bull, clay, 14th-13th century BC

Greek and Roman art is represented most numerously at the exhibition. Great attention pullers are an outstanding collection of ancient ceramics (black-figure and red-figure vases or Megarian bowls), terracotta figures from the most renowned Greek workshops (for example in Tanagra) or local Crimean manufactories, fine examples of monumental sculptures as well as glassware and other decorative works of art.

Kyliks, 5th century BC
Gorgon's mask, terracotta, end of 6th century BC

The visitor will no doubt find it interesting to look at the priceless Scythian and Sarmatian objects excavated by archaeologists from the kurgans that those peoples constructed on the territory of today's southern Ukraine.

String of beads, faience, glass, 2nd-3rd century AD
String of beads, faience, glass, 2nd-3rd century AD

Photo: Jacek Swiderski.
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