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Antiquity
Art
/5th century BC
– 3rd century AD/
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As an intermediary in the
multiform exchange between the two worlds – the Mediterranean
and the Thrace, the antique Odessos became a center for development
of culture and fine arts. Some early sculptures from the 5th
century BC hint that the town art developed parallel to
the great Mediterranean art. One of those masterpieces is the
head of Apollo /from Odessos/ which belongs to a group
of monuments created by the great Greek sculptor Kalamis
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Among the other sculptural monuments,
for their high quality, should be distinguished the portrait
of a young woman from Odessos /2nd – 3rd century AD/,
the head of Dionisius, the statue group representing playing
children /from Marcianopolis 2nd – 3rd century AD/, as well
as Dionisius on horseback from Odessos /2nd – 3rd century AD/.
Exceptionally beautiful are the marble heads of the health-bringing
deities Asklepius and Hygia found in a sanctuary in Odessos
/1st – 3rd century AD/, a child's head from Odessos /1st century
BC/, a statuette of Herculais from Varna region /2nd –3rd century
AD/. |
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The small stone plastics
also represent the art of Odessos from 1st – 3rd centuries AD
among which prevail the images of Apollo, Aphrodite, Cybella,
Hygia, Asklepius and Artemis.
Exhibited is also a part of the rich museum
collection of bronze plastics gathered from Odessos and its
vicinities. Among the exhibits of special interest are the wonderful
vessels for keeping balm oils in the form of various figures
– busts of a young and of an old barbarian, a sitting monkey,
statuettes of Tuhe, Dionisius, Hermes, Darzalas, and many others.
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Central place in the exhibition takes
the bronze ritual vessel which is the only vessel of that kind
in the world found wholly preserved in Dionisopolis /today's
town of Baltchik/. The vessel is decorated with relieves representing
the ancient Greek myth about Ephigeny in Tauris /1st century
AD/. |
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