TEXTILE FRAGMENTS FROM SARCOPHAGUS No 4 EXCAVATED NEAR THE GREAT BASILICA IN PLISKA Cover Image

ТЪКАН ОТ САРКОФАГ № 4, ОТКРИТ ДО ГОЛЯМАТА БАЗИЛИКА В ПЛИСКА
TEXTILE FRAGMENTS FROM SARCOPHAGUS No 4 EXCAVATED NEAR THE GREAT BASILICA IN PLISKA

Author(s): Ivan Chokoev
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Social history, Middle Ages, 6th to 12th Centuries
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: textile; silk; samite

Summary/Abstract: Four sarcophagi were excavated near the Grate Basilica in Pliska in 1970. They were dated in the second half of the 9th century. Precious artifacts and textile were found only in sarcophagus No 4. The textile fragments were located on the upper half of the human-skeleton. In present time the textile is missing. The previous conclusions were reconsidered on the base of the published data and the photography material. Probably the textile fragments were fromthe silk – samite. Most likely they were from a garment similar to the ones of the Bulgarian warriors in the miniature from the Menologion of Basil II, ca. 1000, Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana (Vat. gr. 1613).

  • Issue Year: 25/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 179-187
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Bulgarian