Glazunova O.N.

Key words: ceramic tiles manufacture, decorative art, architectural covering, cultural connections, iconography of ornaments, artistic terracotta.
The article gives a general topographic and stratigraphic overview of the architectural ceramic tiles from the 17th c. that were found in New Jerusalem monastery in 2009–2011, and gives statistical data and attributions. The assemblage includes hundreds of intact specimens. The tiles were manufactured in the monastery by Russian and Central European craftsmen. Special tiles were made for the Resurrection cathedral, where they were used for the inner and outer walls, the iconostases and the didactic and memorial inscriptions. Dozens of complete tile assemblages for stoves have also been found. They date to the middle of the 17th – the beginning of the 19th cc., thus indicating a widespread development of the tile manufacture. Many of the tile types have not been encountered previously (among them the fragment of the ceramic icon of Christ Pantocrator).