TREASURES AND EVIDENCE

Rogozen

Rogozen: a collection accumulated over generations

The variety of 165 vessels suggests that the treasure was collected over several generations.

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Silver vessels from the Rogozen treasure displayed in the Vratsa museum. View of the whole; Do not assign a figurative scene or a specific inscription without identifying the corresponding vessel.
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History and context

A treasure can be a family biography. The 165 Rogozen vessels need not have come together from a single workshop: their diversity suggests an accumulation of prestige objects. Drinking and offering a cup could make the position of a ruling house visible to its guests.

Animals, plant motifs, mythological scenes and Greek inscriptions with the names of Thracian rulers coexist on the vessels. Silver thus preserves political relationships: people and objects circulated between communities that traded, exchanged gifts or entered into conflict.

Evidence and interpretation

165 vessels: 108 phialai, 54 jugs and 3 cups. Sources give different chronological ranges; the assemblage accumulated over time.

Catalogue facts

Date: mainly 5th–4th centuries BCE; The set has a history of accumulation, not a single manufacturing date.
Location: Rogozen · Bulgaria

A SHARED TOPIC, DIFFERENT MOMENTS

Objects connected through time

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mainly 5th–4th centuries BCE; The set has a history of accumulation, not a single manufacturing date.

Rogozen

Thracians

Primary interval of the cumulative set, not single manufacturing date.

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Vessels

Before Sumer · mid-6th–5th millennium BCE · Sumer
Twin-chambered vessel from Cova de l’Or · Early Neolithic · VI–V millennia BCE · Prehistory
Before Egypt · ca. 4400–3800 BCE · Ancient Egypt
Before Nubia · V–IV millennium BCE · Nubia, Kerma and Kush
Before Gojoseon · Middle Neolithic, c. 4000 BCE · Gojoseon and early Korea
Bevel-rimmed bowl · ca. 3500–3000 BCE · Sumer
Uruk Vase · ca. 3300–3000 BCE · Sumer
Before Yayoi · Middle Jōmon, ca. 3000 BCE · Yayoi Japan
Vasiliki · ca. 2500–2200 BCE · Greek worlds
Before the Greeks · c. 2400–2200 BCE · Greek worlds
Before Ancient China · c. 2500–2000 BCE · Ancient China
Longshan · c. 2500–2000 BCE · Ancient China
Kerma vessel · c. 1802–1640 BCE · Nubia, Kerma and Kush
Grave Circle A and Chrysolakkos · 18th–16th centuries BCE · Greek worlds
Before Vedic India · c. 1900–1300 BCE · Vedic and later Indian worlds
Jue · c. sixteenth century BCE · Ancient China
Pithos · c. 1450–1375 BCE · Greek worlds
Tutankhamun's grave goods · death towards 1323 BCE · Ancient Egypt
Stag Vessel · 14th–13th centuries BCE · Hittites
Valchitran · second half of the 14th century–beginning of the 13th century BCE, according to NAIM; other publications use wider intervals from the Late Bronze. · Thracians
Liding · 12th–11th centuries BCE · Ancient China
Before the Iberias · Final Bronze, c. 1000 BCE · Iberians
Grey bowl from Hastinapura · c. 1100–800 BCE in the classical sequence of Hastinapura · Vedic and later Indian worlds
Before Etruscans and Rome · ca. 850–800 BCE · Etruscans and Rome
The urn under the helmet · 9th–8th centuries BCE · Etruscans and Rome
Tomb 1 at Kuntur Wasi · c. 800 BCE · Pre-Inca cultures
Regolini-Galassi tomb · ca. 675–650 BCE · Etruscans and Rome
The great Greek krater of Vix · ≈530–500 BCE · Greek worlds
Scorțaru cauldron · 6th–5th centuries BCE · Thracians
Vix Tomb · c. 500 BCE · Celtic worlds
Orpheus among the Thracians · circa 440 BCE; attributed to the London Painter E 497. · Thracians
Twenty-six voiceless signs · 5th–4th centuries BCE · Scythians and Saka
Rogozen · mainly 5th–4th centuries BCE; The set has a history of accumulation, not a single manufacturing date. · Thracians — You are viewing
Grave goods of Baza and Toya · First half of the 4th century BCE · Iberians
The Attic krater that took on a new life in Cástulo · 4th century BCE · Greek worlds
The silver amphora of Chertomlyk · 4th century BCE · Greek worlds
The Kul-Oba vase · 4th century BCE · Greek worlds
Faces of the Steppe · Second half of the 4th century BCE · Scythians and Saka
Poroina Mare Rhyton · Second half of the 4th century BCE · Thracians
Borovo · 4th century BC C.; 350–300 BCE in the ISAW catalog. · Thracians
Leipzig Fish Plate · Last third 4th–early 3rd century BCE · Greek worlds
Golyamata Kosmatka · End of the 4th century – beginning of the 3rd century BCE; ritual burial at the beginning of the III according to Iskra. · Thracians
Panagyurishte · late 4th century – early 3rd century BCE, towards 300 BCE · Thracians
Dove of the Amarejo · 3rd century BCE · Iberians
Mairena Hoard · 3rd century BCE · Iberians
Vase from Chão de Lamas · Piece: III–II centuries BCE · concealment ≈110–76 BCE · Iberians
Vas dels Guerrers · 3rd–early 2nd century BCE · Iberians
Warriors' Vase · 3rd–2nd centuries BCE · Iberians
The dismantled cauldron · 2nd–1st centuries BCE · Celtic worlds
Kalathos of Alcorisa · 2nd–1st centuries BCE · Iberians
Patera from Perotito · Second half of the 2nd–beginnings of the 1st century BCE · Iberians
Urewe vessel · regional range c. 800 BCE–650 CE · Bantu-speaking worlds
Two rows of coffins · Mainly Middle Yayoi, 2nd century BCE–1st century CE · Yayoi Japan
Ceramics that continued · Last third of the 2nd century BCE–1st century CE · Iberians
Roman glass oinochoe · Late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE · Etruscans and Rome
Gladiators Cup of Chavagnes · 25–75 CE · Etruscans and Rome
Egyptian oil lamp with a fish, held in Laon · 3rd–4th centuries CE · Ancient Egypt
Laon lamp with fish · 3rd–4th centuries CE · Etruscans and Rome
Water in a shell · 1816–1826 · San histories

Without a comparable date (not part of the chronological order):

A Kerma vessel deposited at Abydos · Second Intermediate Period · Ancient Egypt
A tradition that invents · collected in 1993 or 1995 · Batwa / Twa histories
A vase travels; the rite changes · No individual dating published on this record · Iberians
Early pottery · before ca. 9400 cal BCE · Mande Worlds
Liédena Flask · Roman period · individual chronology not published in the entry · Etruscans and Rome
Made in Garama · I millennium BCE–I millennium CE · Garamantes
Oil in a calabash · ca. 1947 · Batwa / Twa histories
The unfinished gesture · 1947 · Batwa / Twa histories
Travelling objects · Mainly Roman period · Garamantes
Urns from Adichanallur · Iron Age · samples towards 665 and 467 BCE · Vedic and later Indian worlds
Vessels without a language · Urewe, broad regional range ca. 800 BCE–650 CE · Bantu-speaking worlds

Embossing

Stag Vessel · 14th–13th centuries BCE · Hittites
Tribute to Assyria · c. 848 BCE · Phoenicians
Gold at Kuntur Wasi · c. 800–550 BCE · Pre-Inca cultures
Coțofenești helmet · Second half of the 5th century – beginning of the 4th century BCE · Thracians
Rogozen · mainly 5th–4th centuries BCE; The set has a history of accumulation, not a single manufacturing date. · Thracians — You are viewing
The silver amphora of Chertomlyk · 4th century BCE · Greek worlds
The Kul-Oba vase · 4th century BCE · Greek worlds
Faces of the Steppe · Second half of the 4th century BCE · Scythians and Saka
Chão de Lamas pectoral · 3rd–2nd centuries BCE · concealed in the early 1st century BCE · Iberians
Vase from Chão de Lamas · Piece: III–II centuries BCE · concealment ≈110–76 BCE · Iberians
The dismantled cauldron · 2nd–1st centuries BCE · Celtic worlds
Patera from Perotito · Second half of the 2nd–beginnings of the 1st century BCE · Iberians

Banqueting

The great Greek krater of Vix · ≈530–500 BCE · Greek worlds
Rogozen · mainly 5th–4th centuries BCE; The set has a history of accumulation, not a single manufacturing date. · Thracians — You are viewing
Borovo · 4th century BC C.; 350–300 BCE in the ISAW catalog. · Thracians
Panagyurishte · late 4th century – early 3rd century BCE, towards 300 BCE · Thracians
Vase from Chão de Lamas · Piece: III–II centuries BCE · concealment ≈110–76 BCE · Iberians
Patera from Perotito · Second half of the 2nd–beginnings of the 1st century BCE · Iberians

Without a comparable date (not part of the chronological order):

The Banquet of Seuthes II · Towards 400 BCE. Anabasis episode · Thracians

A closer look

About 1 min to read · 2 sections. Further reading and sources · free access. Editorial review recorded: September 5, 2026.

count the pieces

The inventory of the Vratsa museum distinguishes 108 phialai, 54 jugs and 3 cups. Phialai are shallow containers, often with a central protuberance, used by various societies in the Mediterranean and the Balkans. The repetition of this shape together with the numerous jugs allows us to imagine much larger drinking services than individual tableware.

Gifts, loot and hiding

Some vessels preserve Greek inscriptions with the names of Thracian rulers and scenes from the Greek mythological repertoire. The differences between the pieces point to a history of accumulation. Gifts, exchanges and loot are possible avenues of circulation; None alone explains all the objects in the treasure.

Museum · Vratsa Museum: Rogozen, inventory and analysisAccess recorded: September 5, 2026.
Research · Oxford Classical Dictionary: RogozenAccess recorded: September 5, 2026.

Location and territory

APPROXIMATE LOCATION

Rogozen · BulgariaApproximate reference of origin or production, not exact findspot.

Where it is held

Vratsa Regional History Museum

Item or group in the record · Documented collection

Rogozen Treasure collection; this record does not guarantee that all 165 vessels are displayed simultaneously.

The holding institution is documented; public display may change. Check its official record before visiting.

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Rogozen

History and context

Evidence and interpretation

Catalogue facts

Objects connected through time

Rogozen

The goat from PG 1237

Stag Vessel

Before the Iberias

Twenty-six voiceless signs

Rogozen

The silver amphora of Chertomlyk

Treasure of Jávea

Thoth in the form of a baboon

Poroina Mare Rhyton

Borovo

Falcata from Almedinilla

Treasure of Cheste

Mairena Hoard

Chão de Lamas pectoral

Vase from Chão de Lamas

Horse fibula

The dismantled cauldron

Patera from Perotito

Denarius of Carisius

A closer look

count the pieces

Gifts, loot and hiding

Location and territory

Where it is held

Vratsa Regional History Museum

Sources and references

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