Olga S. Rumyantseva^1,*, Nikolay I. Sudarev^1,**, Roman A. Mimokhod^1, ***, Pavel S. Uspensky^1, ****, Sergey V. Kashaev^2, *****, and Artyom M. Ismagulov^3, ******

¹Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia
²Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS, Saint Petersburg, Russia
³NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, Russia

*E-mail: o.roumiantseva@mail.ru
**E-mail: sudarev@list.ru
***E-mail: mimokhod@list.ru
****E-mail: uspenskiy07@mail.ru
*****E-mail: kashaevs@mail.ru
******E-mail ismagulov.art@mail.ru

Keywords: glass, chemical composition, core-formed vessels, Northern Pontic, SEM-EDS, LA-ICP-MS.

The authors have studied the composition of 41 glass samples of core-formed vessels and beads dating from the 6th–1st centuries BC originating from the Volna 1 burial site on the Taman Peninsula. Most of the vessels and all of the beads were made of material presumably of Levantine origin; the origin of the glass from one vessel, dating to the first half of the 5th century BC, remains unknown (it can be pre­sumed to originate from Italy or Egypt). Minor changes in the composition in the 5th century BC suggest either a shift of glassmaking centres within the Syro-Palestinian region or technological modifications in glassmaking or – working practices. For the early period (late 6th – 5th century BC), it is also possible that glassmaking centres specialized in producing glass of certain colours – primarily blue coloured with cobalt, which was not widely available.

DOI: 10.7868/S3034577426020047