{"id":20572,"date":"2018-06-28T16:35:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hushardzan.am\/?p=20572"},"modified":"2018-08-13T14:14:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T11:14:20","slug":"%d5%b4%d5%a5%d5%ae%d5%a1%d5%b4%d5%b8%d6%80-%d5%ab-%d5%af%d5%a1%d6%80%d5%a1%d5%bd%d5%b6%d5%a5%d6%80%d5%a8-%d5%af%d6%81%d5%b8%d6%82%d6%81%d5%a1%d5%a4%d6%80%d5%be%d5%a5%d5%b6-%d5%a1%d6%80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/archives\/20572","title":{"rendered":"PITCHERS OF \u201cMETSAMOR\u201d TO BE PRESENTED IN THE MUSEUM-RESERVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The exhibition of \u201cMetsamor\u201d historical-cultural museum-reserve was completed with two more pitchers.\u00a0 In 2013 during the excavations of Metsamor the Armenian-Polish archaeological\u00a0 expedition group unearthed a structure concerning the early Iron age (11-9<sup>th<\/sup> B.C.), which was fired during the attack on the settlement. During the excavations fragments of 5 huge pitchers were discovered, which had remained in the same place without changes. Disc shaped pedestals were put under all pitchers. The fragments were cleaned in NCSO\u2019s laboratory, two pitchers were systematized and restored. Missing parts were filled with plaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will be separated in the permanent exhibition as up today pitchers with that kind of size and shape have not been discovered from the territory of the site. \u201cI\u2019m sure that the visitors will get acquainted with this fragment of our culture\u201d, mentioned NCSO\u2019s director Ara Tarverdyan.<\/p>\n<p>Like the other pitchers of the museum-reservation\u2019s permanent exhibition, these two as well will be placed on special pedestals.<\/p>\n<p>Together with the pitchers of the museum-reserve\u2019s fund, 60 archaeological materials were brought to NCSO\u2019s laboratory: necklace, dagger, amphora, etc. The finds were cleaned and returned to the museum-reserve. Among them exclusive is the plate made of stone, excavated from Metsamor site dating back to the 1<sup>st<\/sup> century B.C. Plate like that was discovered during the excavations implemented in Lori berd and Artsakh.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exhibition of \u201cMetsamor\u201d historical-cultural museum-reserve was completed with two more pitchers.\u00a0 In 2013 during the excavations of Metsamor the Armenian-Polish archaeological\u00a0 expedition group unearthed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,64],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}