Nikolay A. Krenke^1,2,*, Ivan N. Ershov^3,**, Vera A. Raeva^4,***, and Tatiana V. Stolyarova^5,****

¹Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia
²Institute of Geography RAS, Moscow, Russia
³Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia
⁴Independent researcher, Moscow, Russia
⁵Smolensk State Museum-Reserve, Smolensk, Russia 

*E-mail: nkrenke@mail.ru
**E-mail: ershovin@yandeax.ru
***E-mail: veraraeva@mail.ru
****E-mail: anasazi03@inbox.ru

Keywords: pot-shaped and bowl-shaped tiles, Lithuania, Smolensk, Cathedral Hill, castles of Belarus.

The article discusses finds of pot-shaped tiles in the territory of Smolensk from the 1970s to the present. It is established that Smolensk tiles have similarities in both lines of pot-shaped tile evolution traced through the finds in Belarusian castles; the two lines originating from the common root. The period of existence of such tiles is determined within the 15th–16th centuries AD. It is assumed that Smolensk was part of the distribution zone of this product type. The authors also suggest that pot-shaped tiles charac­teristic of spreading Western «stove fashions» can serve as an important cultural marker distinguishing the material world of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from its eastern neighbour.

DOI: 10.31857/S0869606325020111, EDN: IQZGBG