TREBENIŠTE
Yugoslavia.
The name has been
applied to a necropolis near Lake Ochrid in Macedonia
where a number of graves were found to contain burial
gifts of remarkable intrinsic and artistic value.
The necropolis is in the environs of Gorenci near the
village of Trebenište on the road from Ohrid to Kičevo.
The site was discovered in 1918, and the treasures of
seven graves were removed by Bulgarian soldiers to Sofia,
where they can now be seen in the National Museum.
Some of the more recent discoveries are in the National
Museum of Ohrid and the rest are in the National Museum in Belgrade.
Fourteen of the graves contained hundreds of gold,
silver, and bronze vessels and jewelry, many of which
had been imported from Greece along with a number of
terracotta vessels decorated in Attic black-figure style.
The Greek objects, which include large bronze tripods
and kraters adorned with human and mythical figures,
date to the second half of the 6th c. B.C., but the many
Illyrian objects that accompanied them show that the
burials took place only in the second half of the 5th c.
B.C. Among the artifacts of special magnificence are a
gold death mask, chased silver cups, and bronze Illyrian
helmets.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
B. Filow,
Die archaïsche Nekropole von
Trebenischte am Ochrida-See (1927); L. Popović,
Katalog Nalaza iz Nekropole kod Trebeništa (1956).
J. WISEMAN
