HERITAGE STRUCTURE
Sources:
- Heritage constituted from the research conducted by archaeologists from Braila Museum (over 90%);
- Donations and acquisitions;
The age of the heritage:
- Upper Paleolithic (exhibits proceeding from donations)
- Middle Neolithic, Boian-Giulesti Culture (the middle of the 5th millennium BC)
- Eneolithic
- Bronze Age
- Iron Age I (Hallstatt)
- Iron Age II (La Tene)
- Greek Period
- Roman Period
- Post-Roman Epoch
- Migrations Period
- Middle Ages
Donors:
Paul Balcanescu, over 500 items, especially Graeco-Roman, some of an outstanding value.
Number of items:
Over 15,000.
Types of items:
Tools and utensils, armament items, military and harness equipment, jewels and clothing accessories, ceramics and glass containers, coins, inscriptions, architectural elements, cult objects, etc.
Treasure objects:
Neolithic (millennia 5th - 4th BC) ceramics and cult objects (altars, statuettes); ceramics stoneware, adornments and prestige objects – from the transition period and from the Bronze Age (4th - 3rd millennia BC); the inventory belonging to the Getic aristocratic tomb of Gavani (4th century BC); ceramic pots and Geto-Dacian jewellery (4th – 1st centuries BC); Graeco-Roman glass or ceramics vessels, statuettes and rushlights; ceramics vessels and adornment objects from the migrations period (centuries AD 2nd - 4th); ceramics vessels, adornment objects, decoration tiles from the Middle Ages (9th-18th centuries).
