Romania’s Antique Gold and Silver

Brukenthal National Museum announces the exhibition opening for Romania’s Antique Gold and Silver on Wednesday, November 14, 2:00 pm. The exhibition is one of the largest of its kind in Romania and is the result of a project initiated by the National Museum of Romania’s History in Bucharest to which adhered other 30 Romanian museums, Brukenthal National Museum among them.
The exhibition presents 1.004 archaeological pieces dated back to the 5th millennia BC to 7th century AD, all discovered on the Romanian territories. The exhibition illustrates the multiple functions of precious metal insignia that declined a noble’s status, well-faire or religious consequence. There are to be seen on display items of Getae royal extraction, Dacian silverware, funerary or hoards dated in late Antiquity or early Middle Ages. 
Brukenthal National Museum is exhibiting 59 pieces (the inventory of an incineration tomb – No. 1 in Tilişca village and the inventory of a Gepid tomb – M3 and M4 discovered in Miercurea Sibiului village, Sibiu County).