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

Belt Buckles (Paftas)

Detailed information

Name of the object

Belt buckles

Inventory №

7191

Location

Shumen Regional Museum

Material from which the item is made

Metal – gold, silver, copper, iron, bronze

Dimensions and weight

Method of acquisition and location

Cultural period of creation

Ethnography

Item description

Of yellowish metal alloy. Model cast and forged. In the middle same shaped, black plates with relief decoration of organic origin (decoration badly damaged) in metal fitting, around them border and floral motif. Clasp hidden by diamond-shaped plate with convex rosette in relief. 2 flat strips soldered on the reverse in the widest part
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