Olga S. Rumyantseva

Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia
E-mail: o.roumiantseva@mail.ru

Keywords: the Northern Pontic region, the Roman period, glassworking, workshop, Alma-Kermen.

In 1959–1961, in the fortified settlement of Alma-Kermen in the South-Western Crimea, a manufacturing complex with three “furnaces” and glass finds exceptional for the Northern Pontic region was found and interpreted as a glass workshop. Reexamination of these finds, a detailed analysis of the structures found there and the accompanying material allows for a conclusion about the absence of any signs of glass production on the site. Numerous finds of fragments of glass vessels were probably related to everyday practice of collecting cullet intended for recycling. The localization of finds, their character, as well as an exceptionally high quality of the glass which they were made from suggest their connection with the monumental architectural complex of the second half of the 2nd – the first half of the 3rd century AD that existed on the site during the Roman presence.

DOI: 10.31857/S086956870009073-1