Splendor and Power in the Age of Migrations / The History of Romania in One Object
Mon, Nov 23
|Online Event
The tomb of a 5th century aristocratic woman and its amazing inventory
Time & Location
Nov 23, 2020, 2:00 PM EST
Online Event
About The Event
With these truly magnificent gold ornaments, we take you to the tumultuous world of the 5th century A.D., when the migrations of the Germanic and other Eastern tribes reached its peak, bringing about abrupt changes in lifestyles and mores and creating new centers of power in the former possessions of the Roman Empire. These exquisite objects were found in a Germanic tomb at Florești, in Transylvania, and belonged to a young aristocratic woman, whose world of privilege and pomp they recreate and reveal. Text and video presentation by Alpár Dobos, archaeologist and curator at the National Museum of Transylvanian History in Cluj-Napoca. Film concept by Geanina Simion and Dragoș Popa.
Watch and read on our FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE and WEBSITE from Monday, November 23, 2 p.m. EDT (or anytime later).
Alpár Dobos has been working as an archaeologist and curator at the National Museum of Transylvanian History Cluj-Napoca since 2019. He was born in…