Стеклянные сосуды из раскопок Алмалыкского могильника

Abstract

The article discusses the glass vessels found during the excavations of the cemetery in Almalyk-dere ravine at the north-eastern slope of Mangup mountain. As the cemetery of Almalyk was plundered two times, in antiquity and in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, its graves contained almost no glass vessels in situ, and the overwhelming majority of the finds were uncovered in the soil secondary deposited by the looters. The forms of the vessels comprise of the pitchers, tumblers/cups, dishes, bowls, and open-type vessels tentatively called cups. Some of the items were documented as a few fragments; such cases mark only that the glass ware was among the grave goods in this or that burial structure. Almost all of the finds under study originate from the assemblages dating to the second half/late fourth to the first half of the sixth century. Most glassware forms are rather typical of the Late Roman / Early Mediaeval Period. Most often, glass vessels occurred in burial vaults within supposed sets of funerary utensils along with red-slip and hand-made vessels. Although most of the burial vaults and undercut graves in the cemetery of Almalyk were plundered, one can trace the use of glass vessels as grave goods as late as the sixth century. The later assemblages excavated at the cemetery of Almalyk so far do not contain any glassware.