Project “Creation and presentation of digitally accessible cultural heritage of Shumen Municipality”

Censer

Detailed information

Name of the object

Censer

Inventory №

9231

Location

Shumen Regional Museum

Material from which the item is made

Metal – gold, silver, copper, iron, bronze

Dimensions and weight

Height 13,5 cm, diameter top 7,3 cm, length chain 31 cm

Method of acquisition and location

Cultural period of creation

Ethnography

Item description

On chains. Of white metal alloy. Intricately profiled body, cup consisting of 3 cylindrical belts. Lower is solid with incised lines forming lozenges, sloping to its base to truncated cone, also decorated with incised lines forming 4 triangles. Middle belt is openwork – decoration of rhombuses, above them frieze of overlapping circles. Upper belt forming openwork mouth
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