Sveshtari Gold Treasure Presented in Romania for the First Time

Jerusalem, 18 December, 2022 (TPS) -- BUCHAREST, 18.12.2022 (BTA)
The famous Thracian gold treasure of Sveshtari can be seen at the National History Museum of Romania (MNIR) from December 8, 2022 through June 25, 2023.

The display, titled “The Treasure of Sveshtari: Gold of the Thracians South of the Danube”, consists of women’s jewelry, horse harness appliques and an iron bridle that are otherwise permanently exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum (NAM) with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia.

The treasure is dated to the late 4th or the early 3rd c. BC, when the state of the Thracian tribe Getae was at its political and cultural pinnacle. The precious objects were unearthed in November 1972 during excavations of the Golyamata Mogila near the village of Sveshtari (Northeastern Bulgaria).

The exhibition in Bucharest “materializes a beautiful collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, which we would like to endure,” MNIR Director Ernest Oberlander-Tarnoveanu said in a BTA interview. “One the treasures that helped shape the image of Thracian archaeological heritage is presented in Romania for the first time,” he added.

“Romania and Bulgaria should not be separated either culturally or economically or internationally,” Oberlander-Tarnoveanu emphasized.

This exhibition, as well as a Thracian warrior’s ceremonial armor found in a tomb in Agighiol, Southeastern Romania, that the MNIR lent for a temporary exhibition at NAM titled “The Panoply of the Thracian Warriors” (April 21 – November 30, 2022), sets the beginning of a long-term cooperation between the two museums, the National Archaeological Museum said.