Британский музей пожертвовал копии шести пунктов Окса Сокровища для Национального музея Таджикистана. Напомним, что 170 золотых и серебряных изделий из Ахеменидов Персидского периода с 4-го по 2ые века до нашей эры, в том числе судов, браслеты, печати, кольца и монеты, находятся в Музее Виктории и Альберта в Британском музее. _______ The British Museum hands over copies of some items from the Oxus Treasure to Tajikistan The British Museum has donated copies of six items of the Oxus Treasure to the National Museum of Tajikistan, the Tajik MFA information department reports. Among them are Rectangular Gold Plaque, Chased Silver Statuette, Gold Disc Clothing Appliqué, Circular Gold Costume-fitting, and Circular Gold Plaque Ornament. Senior representatives of the British Museum handed over the copies to Tajik Ambassador to the United Kingdom Erkin Qosimov on March 8. During the meeting, the sides reportedly discussed issues related to the establishment of cooperation between the British Museum and museums in Tajikistan. Tajik ambassador, in particular, asked the British Museum representatives to assist with training of personnel for the National Museum of Tajikistan. A ceremony of an official opening of the National Museum of Tajikistan will take place in Dushanbe within the next few days. We will recall that Tajik Minister of Culture Mirzoshorukh Asrori told journalists in Dushanbe on January 20, 2012 that representative of the British Museum will hand over the copies of some of items of the Oxus Treasure to Tajikistan. According to him, the British Museum has paid all expenses on making the copies and the Tajik side has paid only expenses on gilding the copies. The minister noted that it was impossible to make copies of the majority of items of the Oxus Treasure because they were very fragile. Therefore, the British Museum has decided to make copies only of those items that can be copied, Asrori added. The Oxus treasure is a collection of 170 gold and silver items from the Achaemenid Persian period dating from the 4th – 2nd centuries B.C., including vessels, armlets, seals, finger rings, and coins. Pieces from it are located in the Victoria and Albert Museum and in the British Museum, with many items bequeathed to the nation by Augustus Wollaston Franks. The artifacts were discovered in the 19th century. A group of merchants acquired the Treasure (the precise findspot is unknown, but thought to be on the River Oxus. Oxus is the ancient name of the Amudarya River); however, on the road from Kabul to Peshawar they were captured by bandits, who dispersed the Treasure before they were rescued by Capt. F.C. Burton, the British political officer in Afghanistan. He then helped them to recover the Treasure and, in gratitude, they sold him a companion piece to one of the bracelets now at the British Museum; this companion piece is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. These merchants then continued to Rawalpindi to sell the rest of the Treasure. Thus pieces of the Oxus Treasure were then bought from the bazaars of India, and finally ended up in the British Museum after this long journey.
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