The Platar Collection is a collection of over 10,000 artifacts from a territory of Ukraine created by Sergei Platonov and Sergei Taruta.
The Platar Collection official website >> http://www.platar.org/en or https://web.archive.org/web/20220303214348/http://www.platar.org/en/about
Head ornaments
Diadem. 2rd-1st century BCE
Gold, nephrite, agate, carnelian, glass, garnet
(Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
Bracelets
1st century Sarmatian bracelets; gold, glass paste.
Length 27.2 cm
Made of gold with jade (nephrite), garnet, glass paste; 4th-6th century.
Photo [source]
Brooch / fibula
Medallion with image of Aphrodite (?).
Second half of the 4th century BCE.
Brooch with an image of Aphrodite with two Erotes.
Gold, blue glass paste.
Diameter 5.2 cm.
1st century, Roman period
Gold bee-shaped brooch, Greece, 4th century BCE. ©Robert Stachnik
Dolphin-shaped fibula, Greek
Pin. Gold, forging, granules. Height 8 cm. Diameter of the head 2 cm. 4th century BCE, Eastern Mediterranean
Gold pin with dolphins, 3rd-1st C BCE
Gold pin, 3rd-1st C BCE
Earrings / ear pendants
Ear pendants, 2nd century BCE
Earrings. Gold, glass past. Forging, stamping, grain. Height 3.8 cm.
4th century BCE
Greek / East Mediterranean
Necklaces and pendants
Gold, garnet. Length 8.7 cm
Platar Collection catalog 4.105 [pp. 218, 370]
Necklace, 5th-3rd C BCE
Gold and glass, 4th-2nd century BCE
Pendant in the shape of a horned Pamir sheep.
Gold, height 4.5 cm, length 4.3 cm, 4th C BCE
Rings
4th-3rd C BCE Gold, glass paste. Height 3,2 cm. Inv. No PCP 3516.
Finger-ring with oval shield-box with miniature fastener and paste mounting of wire double rosette on the front side. Side part of the shield is pictured with belts of twisted, smooth and ribbed wires and ornamental pattern in a form of egg-like curl.
Vessels
Pyxis nr 1
4th-2nd C BCE pyxis (nr 2)
Gold, glass paste. Height 8,6 cm, diameter 8,5 cm. Inv. No PCP 3471
Cylindrical vessel with erect sides, flat bottom and disk-like cover with cylindrical lug, which ends in hemisphere with rosette inside. The pyxis cover edges and body is pictured with ribbed wires. The cover surface is pictured with imprinted ornamental pattern in a form of acanthus with rosettes between. There are relief images of the mythology theme at sides of it.
Cosmetic box
Cup. Casting, scanning, crimping, soldering.
Height 5 cm, crown diameter 9 cm
2nd-1st centuries BCE Northern Black Sea Coast. Late Hellenistic period
1st C BCE – 1st C CE,
Diameter 12 cm, one hanging ring
Gold rhyton with a promote in the shape of a ram, and Dionysiac scene in high relief. 4th century BCE.
Epichysis. Ceramics. Made on a potter’s wheel. Height 28.1 cm. 4th century BCE Southern Italy, Hellenistic period
Chalice. Glass, gold. Blowing, carving, minting. Total height 12 cm; the diameter of the crown of the glass 7.9 cm, the height is 6.5 cm.
8th-9th century
Reliquary, 11th-12th century
Height 5,9 cm, width 4,8 cm. Inv. No PCP 2936
BELT CLASP
PLAQUES / ORNAMENTS
Gold plaque, 4th century BCE.
An ornament with a Scythian rider, 4th century BCE.
Plaque (one of seven) with an image of an eagle shredding fish.
Gold, stamping.
Dimensions 4.8 / 3.2 cm. 400-380 BCE
Deer, Scythian plaque used to decorate a garment, 4th century BCE.
gold, height 4.1 cm, length 8.9 cm
Stag-shaped gold plaques. 420-400 BCE
Plate-application (one of three) with an image of a boar. Gold, stamping. Dimensions 3.8 / 2 cm. 400-350 BCE
Plaque depicting the scene of “dedication” (“adoration”).
Gold, stamping. Dimensions 4.5 / 2.8 cm. 330-300 BCE
One of four belt plaques with image of animals. 3rd century BCE
Gilded bronze, turquoise, glass
Belt buckle. 2nd-1st century BCE, gilded bronze, 7.6 cm
GREAT MIGRATION PERIOD
5th-7th century fibulas, gold with enamel.
Various ornaments
gilded bronze
SOURCES
- The Platar Collection official website http://www.platar.org/en or https://web.archive.org/web/20220303214348/http://www.platar.org/en/about
- From the lost sources of cultural heritage of Ukraine, The Platar Collection http://www.iananu.kiev.ua/newsstr/mouse/pubkozak.html
PICTURES:
https://photo.unian.net/photo/399187-pudrenicya
- An exhibition in Poland: Ukraina światu. Skarby Ukrainy z kolekcji Platar
Zamek Książąt Pomorskich w Szczecinie
Galeria Północna, od 15 lipca 2016 r. - https://radioszczecin.pl
- http://sztuka.gallery-art.pl
- https://ekoszalin.pl
- https://radioszczecin.pl
- https://szczecin.wyborcza.pl
- https://ukraine.undelete.news
- https://kp.ua/lvov/326981-vo-lvov-pryvezut-artefakty-vremen-rymskoi-ymperyy-y-vyzantyy
- https://kp.ua/life/470078-da-skyfy-my-y-da-bohaty-my
- https://pikabu.ru/story/zoloto_i_oruzhie_6138043
An exhibition in Ukraine:
- ©Andriy Chvartkovsky Виставка «Золота симфонія епохи» http://chvart.com
- Lviv National Gallery of Arts and the PLATAR Museum’s exhibition “Golden Symphony of the Age” [2017-2018] https://afisha.vash.ua
- Photos by Alexander Sinitsa / UNIAN from the exhibition «Слава Украины: золотые сокровища и потерянные цивилизации» Kyiv 2012 https://photo.unian.net/theme/30173-v-kiev-privezli-vystavku-slava-ukrainy-zolotye-sokrovishcha-i-poteryannye-civilizacii.html
An exhibition in China:
1. Ram rhyton photo [link]
2. Exhibition of Cultural Relics and Practical and Decorative Art in Ukrainian Museum [link]
3. https://gugongzhanlan.dpm.org.cn/exhibitShare/74#b
4. https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/161718616
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