VULCHITRUN GOLD TREASURE, 14th c. BC

ISBN 954-500-094-5
Author: Ivan Sotirov, Pavlina Ilieva
Printed in: Sofia 2003
Pages: 12 p., soft cover, size 21 / 15 cm
Language: Text in English
Photos: high quality color illustrations

The Vulchitran gold treasure is one of the world's rarest and most interesting toreutic monuments. It is set of 13 gold vessels with total weight of 12.425 kg.
The treasure dates from the heyday of the Late Bronze Age (second half of the 14th-early 13th century BC ) and originates from the Carpathian-Danubian region. No doubt the Vulchitrun treasure had a religious function. The "mysterious" discs were the lids of receptacles for wine, mead and milk for the libations in the worship of the Thracian god Dionysus. The most likely assumption is that the vessels were possessions of a major shrine of the Dionysian worship.

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