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In
every museum representing monuments from the Antiquity and the Middle
Ages, there is usually a special place for those monuments connected
to the architecture, outer and inner decoration of the buildings.
These are items made of marble, limestone and granite, which are very
often decorated with carved ornaments different in shape and cutting
depth. The name of this part of the museum is called Lapidarium/ the
Lapidary Site. The name comes from two Latin words: “lapis” and
“lapidarius” which mean “stone” (noun) and “stone” (adj.)
respectively. The major and invariable role of the
Lapidary Site is to introduce the visitor into the atmosphere of the
exposition
and take his imagination far back into the distant past. The
Lapidary Site of “Veliki Preslav ” Museum is not an exception to that
rule. It is located all the way along the entrance alley and occupies
the whole space on the first floor of the exposition. You can see part
of very few preserved details from Simeon’s palaces:
stone-plastic
decorations, cornice details, embossed capitals from the big city’s
shrines and colorful marble flooring. Some of them were brought from
far and wide under the king’s order, and local craftsmen skillfully
cut the rest, according to the tradition but combining it with
mythological subjects from old-Bulgarian art mastership.
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