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New round of alligations by Vassil #Bojkov regarding high-level officials. Bank statements show 2,7 mln leva cashed in Jan'18 from his account. He says it was "comfort fee" asked from the top of the executive branch
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#Bulgaria #gambling authority did 3100 probes into various businesses in last five years. Not one looked into Vassil #Bojkov's companies, from which it today seeks 700 million leva unpaid fees for the same period.
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This is a silver cup in the form of a ram’s head. It dates back to (probably) the first half of the 5th c. BC and is part of the #VassilBojkovCollection
It is of 7 separately hammered pieces, assembled together by riveting and soldering
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This beautiful #ancient #artefact is a silver conical cup with an emblem | late 2nd to early 1st BC #VassilBojkovCollection
The gilded repoussé emblem represents a female face surrounded by fifteen triangles disposed like a star
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This is a beautiful #ancient bronze bell situla with two low relief figures on both sides, 360-340 BC.
One of figures on the #artefact shows a naked Greek warrior. And what you see here is an Amazon who advances to the left.
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Gold appliqués with male heads, from the #VassilBojkovCollection.
What is interesting about these is that there are some differences in the features of their faces, mainly in the area of the eyes, the shape of the nose, mouth and hair | 4th - 3rd century BC
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Gold appliqué modelled with a matrix as male heads. Manufactured from very thin golden plate.
Dated back to the end of the 4th - beginning of the 3rd century BC.
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We're starting '20 with an introduction to some beautiful examples of #antique jewellery, like this example of ancient art. This necklace was worn by women of higher status & consists of 14 spherical and 6 biconical beads. 5th century BC
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A behind-the -scenes photo from our previous exhibition 'The Golden Fleece - The quest of the Argonauts'
📸 #Ancient silver hydria-urn dated back to 3rd century BC, part of the #VassilBojkovCollection
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Did you read our latest post on the their image used on the fascinating Dionysian rituality and its mythological concept?
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📸 Silver rhyton with an elder Silenus | #VassilBojkovCollection
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The #rhyton is no doubt the most eccentric shape among the ceremonial vases used in Eastern Mediterranean during #Antiquity, and underwent a long evolutionary process.
📷 Silver rhytа with stag protomae | 3rd qr of the 4th c. BC from the #VassilBojkovCollection
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This is a beautiful #ancient golden wreath of an olive branch made out of 56 leaves and 13 fruits of olives
This type of jewelry was attributed by cities to citizens-benefactors. The real wreaths were usually given only to athletes at sports events
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Did you now that the Greek drama originated from the dithyrambic choruses at the festivals of Dionysus? Actors dressed as satyroi and silenoi performed in satyr-plays
📷 Top of a rhyton decorated with two theatrical masks - Comedy & Tragedy, #VassilBojkovCollection
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On this #ancient silver rhyton (late 3rd or early 2nd BC), we could see a reclining Silenus, an elderly satyr. As a main companion and tutor of the god #Dionysus he was associated with wine drinking feasts and was often presented on drinking vases
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This is an #ancient bronze hydria - a water container in #Antiquity. The name comes from the #Greek word 'hydor' - water. On one of the handles we see a beautiful attachment of a #mythical creature Siren - half bird, half woman
The artefact is part of the #VassilBojkovCollection
This is an #ancient bronze trefoil-mouthed oinochoe dated to 330-310 BC. This typical #Greek shape was once used as a wine pourer. On its handle attachments there are two faces of a young and an elder satyrs.
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Welcome back to another installment of our series Myths and Treasures from the #VassilBojkovCollection!
Our Summer series are dedicated to the captivating Satyroi (or #satyrs) - #ancient #mythical fertility spirits of the countryside and wilds
Watch now! https://t.co/ee93PgYxu1
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