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| General Description | The character inside the tomb wears a purple tunic reaching down to the femur and is tight around the body. The tunic is embroidered and decorated with pearls, especially the sleeves (sleeves and elbows), and is closed in front with 30 golden buttons enameled with green to represent the Basarab dynasty coat of arms. About 20 similar buttons decorated the sleeves and the forearms. The voivode has a leather belt lined with velvet, adorned with pearls and diamonds with gold stars at the corners. The belt closes with a golden beltbuckle. The beltbuckle is a miniature castle in the center of which there is a female swan head. The belt buckle is made out of gold and was designed as a complex of medieval architecture, namely the gate of a fortress wall that opens into an enclosure. The piece consists of three parts molded and articulated by braces. The first two pieces represent the side towers which have a hexagonal shape with two buttresses on each side. The buckle's connection to the belt is achieved through brace and cut plates each provided with two rivets. The central part of the buckle is the gate tower, buildings with balconies, vine under the bridge and the portal. Underneath this there is a swan with a female head on a blue enamel background. The side towers and the tower gate are represented on the same level plane, the latter having the facade decorated with two rows of arches and battlements to watch the road. The terrace of the tower is canted with a portico openings in horseshoe, whose roof has four slopes decorated with fleurons. Underneath the portal there is an ornament made of vegetable stalks, volutes and lily flowers. Inside the portal to a closed area with email, there is a female swan head cast in silver (the figure may represent the folk figure named Melusine, feminine spirit of fresh waters in sacred springs and rivers). On two inverted pyramid trunks supported by a column two characters are represented, a knight and a lady, rendered in profile. |
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