The vestiges of the clothing from the stone church from Orheiul Vechi

Abstract

In the stone church, in the village of Orheiul Vechi, the bones of two people were discovered, with fragments of clothing kept in the funeral complex. The material used was identical: gilded silver threads, twisted on yellow silk thread. The first clothing was made of a coat decorated on the chest with braids, on the top it had a metallic thread coat, cut in front, from which remained three large hemispherical buttons with embossed surface. The inventory discovered in the second burial consisted of a garment with festoon lance, which outlined the upper part of the cut in front, completed with buttons and braids woven from the same metal wire. The wear was completed with an outer garment, of which metal clips and ribbon fragments remained. The research of clothing vestiges, corroborated with pictorial representations from Arab-Persian miniatures, synchronized with the history of the village of Orheiul Vechi, limited the dating of these pieces to the 14th century. The first clothing complex comes from a man from the area of Early Asia, the second clothing complex – from a woman from the Turanian environment on the Volga.