СТЕКЛЯННЫЕ ИЗДЕЛИЯ ДОМОНГОЛЬСКОГО ПЕНДЖИКЕНТА И ЕГО ОКРУГИ

Abstract

The period of High Middle Ages witnessed the development of glassmaking in Central Asia. The paper presents glass articles from pre-Mongolian Penjikent and its suburbs. The Penjikent col- lection contains all major groups of glass articles recognized in the functional classification tradi- tionally used in the region: table glassware (fig. 1; 2; 3, 1–7; 4, 1, 2; 5, 8; 6, 15, 17), perfume and drug jars (fig. 2, 13; 5, 4–7, 9, 10), chemical glassware (fig. 4, 7), household items (fig. 3, 6; 4, 3–5; 5, 1–3; 6, 16), adornments (fig. 5, 11–13) and window-glass (fig. 6, 1–14). The material under study can be dated to the X–XII cc. These glass articles find analogies in the materials from Samarkand, Tash- kent oasis, Bukhara, Fergana valley, Northern Tokharistan, as well as some synchronous urban centers on the territory of modern Kazakhstan. There is also a tendency to a certain uniformity (fashion) in the main types of glass articles that were produced during that period in both Central Asia and the Near East.