Ancient collection of I.C. Suruceanu in archaeological of the Kherson Regional Museum
Journal Title: Eminak - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 4
Abstract
Of all the archaeological museums of Northern Black Sea coast, founded in the nineteenth century, the most dramatic was the fate of the Museum of Antiquities of Scythian Pontus in Chisinau. One of the best museums in the region after the death of its founder out of business, and its collection were sprayed in the collections of other museums or private individuals. The most significant for the study of the history of the Northern Black Sea has a unique collection of lapidary monuments, which is almost completely now stored in archaeological collections of the Kherson regional museum. This collection, like the rest of the Museum of Antiquities of Scythian Pontus, is interesting not only in itself. The history of its formation and further proceeds in Kherson is not less interesting. Museum of Antiquities of Pontus Scythian in Chisinau lay on the initiative collector of antiquities, archaeologist and expert in ancient history Ion Casian Suruceanu. November 18, 1897 he died before reaching a few days before his 46th birthday. At that time, the Museum of Antiquities of Pontus Scythian were 90 443 items. After the death of the founder of the museum his collection were in various private or public museum collections. More than 300 items of ancient culture acquired Kherson Museum of Antiquities. As part of this collection are the everyday things of the ancient world, objects related to funeral practices, building clay objects, building stone objects, decorative objects, sculptures and reliefs, epigraphic monuments, ancient objects of unknown purpose, fake antique items. We can state that the Kherson Regional Museum has in its archaeological collections of the most valuable part of the «lost» collection I.C. Suruceanu – his collection of lapidary monuments, but also other ancient objects of his museum.
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Anton Kostenko
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