Ancient treasures go on show at Rome's Diocletian Baths

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The Museo Nazionale Romano at the Baths of Diocletian presents the largest and most prestigious exhibition of archaeological finds organised by Romania abroad in recent decades.

The exhibit traces the historical and cultural development of the Romanian territory from the eighth century BC to the eighth century AD, highlighting the legacy of various civilisations, including the Romans.

On display are around 1,000 objects from 47 Romanian museums, as well as from the National Museum of History in the Republic of Moldova, exhibited for the first time alongside artefacts from the National Roman Museum.

"For four months, the Italian public will be able to know and admire the testimonies of an exceptional cultural synthesis in the space of the former Dacia. These are the materializations of the contact between civilizations, a historical phenomenon lasting over 1,400 years and which led to the birth of the Romanian people, a people who found in the Latinity of their language the most appropriate name to describe their roots. The artefacts in this exhibition reveal a deeply interconnected ancient and early medieval Europe, where peoples and civilizations were in contact and often in conflict. The Romanian people are, in the end, the product of such a complex process.  The name and the language, the spirituality and the expressions of permanence as a Latin people are our priceless heritage, but they also involve a great responsibility for all those who today take care of protecting the cultural heritage, of enhancing the treasures that we keep in our museums. It is a pride to present them to the public in Rome [...]", says the message of President Klaus Iohannis.

Source - https://www.wantedinrome.com/whatson/italy-rome-dacia-ancient-treasures-romania.html, https://infoprut.ro/113020-artefacte-din-romania-si-r-moldova-prezentate-la-roma-sub-genericul-dacia-ultima-frontiera-a-romanitatii.html, https://infoprut.ro/113020-artefacte-din-romania-si-r-moldova-prezentate-la-roma-sub-genericul-dacia-ultima-frontiera-a-romanitatii.html 

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The British are banned from the exhibition for obvious reasons.

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It's a good way to reach out to people in Italy and teach them about  historical Romanian culture, and they can find out first hand that both countries have Romanesque origins, while Romania has in addition to that Slavic influences. By the way, at first I thought that Museo Nazionale Romano is the National Museum of Romania , well, it's actually the city of Rome. Since Rome has lots of international tourists, they can, too, take a look.

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Pietrosele Treasury, Lex Troesmensium and Biertan Donarium are part of the exposition!

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3 hours ago, LoliLux said:

It's a good way to reach out to people in Italy and teach them about  historical Romanian culture, and they can find out first hand that both countries have Romanesque origins, while Romania has in addition to that Slavic influences. By the way, at first I thought that Museo Nazionale Romano is the National Museum of Romania , well, it's actually the city of Rome. Since Rome has lots of international tourists, they can, too, take a look.

The Romanian equivalent would be ''Muzeul Național Român''! I approve this exposition because the pieces are extremely valuable historical heritage and iconic treasuries put together in single room, also because of the symbolic quality (the fact that there were taken back to Rome). I also hope tourists would take a look- I know not everybody knows Romania is a Latin nation (as you'd probably imagine, many believe Romania is Slavic- which is false even thought there have been influences) 

Italy and Romania are very close partners and despite a shaky start in the 2000s, Romanians became one of the most well-respected communities in Italy (there are 1 Million Romanians living in Italy contributing to a significant share of Italy's GDP). In light of this, it's only natural that Romania, the Republic of Moldova and Italy collaborate  in multiple fields including culture/history, and hopefully help bringing Moldova closer to the EU.

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The exposition will last until April 2024!

 

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Are the old writtings inscribed in Cyrillic Romanian or in Latin language? Do they teach pupils in RO and MOL also Cyrillic script (as an extra skill) to be able to read very old texts or is not relevant? And do you think @FfFfFfFF it is right that modern Romanian is entirely based on Latin script with special signs modifying existing Latin letters? I can't judge RO but when I look at Polish that has many "sh"-sounds, "j" in journalist, and "g" in garage, rz, cz,  etc. for which Latin has no equivalents in sound, I think they should have mixed Cyrillic with Latin, use Latin scirpt as main script but with Cyrillic letters for the sounds that are existing and best expressed with a proper cyrillic letter or entirely go Cyrillic. Romanian should be based on Latin script, imo, but enhanced with real proper Cyrillic letters (not modifications of Latin letters!); like having 22-26 Latin letters and 6-8 Cyrillic letters. After all, as far as I am informed Cyrillic comes from Bulgaria and not Russia, so Cyrillic is not per se a sign of Russification and Latin is only modern when people believe it is modern, it is not really equivalent to progress. I think a Latin-Cyrillic mixed alphabet would best express Polands's identity, at the crossroads of the West and East. "Szczecin" (original name of big Polish city) is way to unnatural and complicated with Latin letters, at least it feels that way to me. Writing it "Щeчin" would be better, in my opinion.

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12 hours ago, LoliLux said:

Are the old writtings inscribed in Cyrillic Romanian or in Latin language? Do they teach pupils in RO and MOL also Cyrillic script (as an extra skill) to be able to read very old texts or is not relevant? And do you think @FfFfFfFF it is right that modern Romanian is entirely based on Latin script with special signs modifying existing Latin letters? 

This opens up a whole discussion about Cyrillic and Latin in the Romanian Principalities and the convoluted reasons of the switch. And a lot of the details of the story are unknown - it's clear though Vulgar Latin was widely spoken in the territory of Romania in the first centuries after Christ - the inscriptions of Lex Troesmensium which I posted above, are, for instance, in Latin (they are the legal code of the city of Troesmis in Dobruja). Some of the core religious vocabulary associated with the adoption of Christiniaty is of Latin origin (compare Italian Basilica Santa Croce to Romanian Biserica Sfânta Cruce). At some point in time (1300s) documents started to be written in Cyrillic - there are various theories as to why this happened

1) According to some, this is the legacy of the First or Second Bulgarian Empires/ the Vlacho-Bulgarian Empire which imposed its script over the Latin-speaking population in the Balkans and Romania

2) Other theories say the devastation caused by the migrations of the Avars, Cumans, Goths, Huns etc in late Antiquity destroyed the societal foundations of the Romanian people which prompted Romanians to adopt the Cyrillic script of the nearby Serbians and Bulgarians

3) Another theory says Alexander the Good of Moldova switched to Cyrillic after the 15th century Council of Florence, when the Catholic and Orthodox Church almost mended the schism of the 11th century, in an attempt to prevent the Catholic Church proselytizing Romanians on linguistic basis.

Yes, it is right the Romanian alphabet has 5 additional special characters (the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet also had some special letters to accomodate sounds not found in Slavic languages). Romanian functions well with these sounds (after all the core part of the language and majority of the lexic is of Latin origin). There are really no issues when it comes to phonetics and the likes, the debate of the 19th century when the switch to Latin happened revolved more around Romania's Orthodox identity and the perception of the Latin alphabet as a ''Catholic'' alphabet.

The Cyrillic script is not longer thaught in Romania and the Republic of Moldova (the only ethnic Romanians which learn Cyrillic are those living in Transnistria and Ukraine). It is, however, useful as a skill because Cyrillic is still the script of the old documents and the script which can be read in the old churches and monasteries. Pupils don't learn it, but many history students do (to expose myself as a history graduate I was kinda supposed to know Cyrillic, but I do not.. honestly I should use this as motivation to finally learn it, I only basic stuff like the fact that Cyrillic Р read like R).

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