Oleg M. Oleinikov *, Konstantin A. Rudenko **
* Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia (olejnikov1960@yandex.ru)
** Kazan State Institute of Culture, Russia (murziha@mail.ru)

Keywords: Novgorod, copper mug, measuring vessel, prototypes of oriental manufacture.

A rare find, a truncated conical copper vessel resembling a mug, was discovered at the excavation area of Andreevskiy‑3 in the thirteenth‑century layer in 2015. It should be regarded as an Old Russian measuring vessel whose volume (0.421 l) roughly corresponds either to the fraction of the chetverik (ca. 0.41 l) or to the volume of the ladle (0.382 l). The Novgorod mug of local manufacture has its prototypes in copper articles of the Volga Bulgaria spread along trade routes of Eastern Europe.