Ceramics from Samarqand

Nižnevolžskij arheologičeskij vestnik, 2022

According to available archaeological materials, there is no earthenware pottery in the Tasmola graves. This feature of the funeral rite was specifically noted in early publications of materials belonging to this culture discovered in 1966. In the 21 st century, the available sources of the material significantly expanded, new categories of monuments, including the kurgans of the elite and settlements were discovered. The increased interest in Tasmola ceramics can be explained by the fact that some ceramics were found in the new mounds, and the possibility of comparing them with pottery from earlier settlements arose. New studies have confirmed the absence of earthenware pottery in the graves. At the same time, available data on "kurgan ceramics" are currently increasing. Occasionally whole vessels but more often their fragments were found in the course of excavations in the upper part of the kurgan. This situation is typical for the burial sites of the early Saka time of the Sayano-Altai. period, where fragments of earthenware pottery were also found in the upper part of the structure. The report presents the results of a technical and technological analysis of ceramics from the two kurgans of the Tasmola culture. Sixteen fragments belonging to 8 vessels were found in kurgan 1 of the Kyzylzhartas burial ground. There were 40 fragments from 7 vessels in kurgan 1 of the burial ground Karazhartas-2. Both burial grounds are located at a distance of 2.6 km from each other on the territory of the Shet district of the Karaganda region. The studied burial mounds date back to the 7 th -5 th centuries BC. According to external features, the ceramics from the two burial mounds are very close to each other. The results of technical and technological analysis showed that, in terms of manufacturing methods, this ceramics is similar to pottery from the settlements of Central Kazakhstan.

Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya (The Volga River Region Archaeology)

Technical ceramics – special devices for firing glazed ware – is a necessary component of highly technological pottery production. Analysis of the wares in the context of all the materials of the complex let the authors establish the specialization of the workshop and solve the issues of the craft reconstruction, identifying the origins of the technological tradition and organization of the workshop. All these possibilities of technical ceramics are of particular importance in the study of the rapidly emerged pottery of the Golden Horde, which reached a high level of development in a short period of time (not full the 14th century). The article is the first to present a set of devices for firing glazed ware from a pottery workshop III in the south-eastern suburb of the second capital of the Golden Horde, Sarai-al-Jedid, known as Tsarevskoye settlement as well. In addition to the furnace supply, the technical ceramics include the “kalyps”– matrix forms and clay stamps for applying re...

MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC POTERRY IN BULGARIA IX – XIII CENTURY, 2021

Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia, 2017

Зарайская верхнепалеолитическая стоянка относится к числу наиболее изученных и широко известных российских памятников, принадлежащих к костенковско-виллендорфскому единству. Во время ее раскопок была найдена уникальная серия предметов, предварительно интерпретированных как керамика. В статье предлагается детальное описание их планиграфии, морфологии и вещественного состава. Полученные данные свидетельствуют о том, что эти изделия подвергались обжигу, но были изготовлены из сырья, которое по своему химическому и минералогическому составу соответствует охрам и не пригодно для производства обычной керамики. Из-за плохой сохранности находок, обусловленной постдепозиционными процессами, не представляется возможным в полной мере и достоверно реконструировать их первоначальную морфологию и предназначение. В то же время определенная повторяемость их морфологических очертаний вполне очевидна и позволяет увидеть некоторые аналогии среди «нефигуративной» керамики из Павлова и Дольни-Вестониц. В этой связи наиболее вероятно, что в попытках сделать изделия, близкие к последней по форме и назначению, обитатели Зарайской стоянки случайно или намеренно стали использовать иное сырье, более пригодное для получения красного пигмента, но не вполне подходящее для изготовления керамики. Таким образом, с формальной точки зрения зарайские образцы трудно назвать керамикой в собственном смысле этого слова, однако они вполне могут представлять собой результат неудачного опыта ее изготовления. Окончательное решение этого вопроса зависит от того, какими были истинные цели их изготовителей.

Ceramic Stamps from Kara-Tobe on the north-west Krim

Ключевые слова: Нахчыван, Кюльтепе I, Сираб, энеолит, поселения, расписная посуда, обсидиан, минералы меди.

История и археология Крыма, вып. X, 2019

Spanish tin-glazed wares both with lustre painting and only with blue and white decoration were permanently delivered to Sudak from about the middle of the 14th century. The main quantity of the finds there belongs to the Valencia wares of a classical style (Matura Valencia ware) dated back to the 15th centuries. In this period tin-glazed wares from the workshops of the Valencia region were dominant in the international markets in general. Obviously, the inhabitants of Sudak were among the regular consumers of the Iberian tableware, which brought by Genoese traders. According to archaeological evidences, these goods were available both for the inhabitants of the commercial harbour area and for the residents of the “upper” city and even the suburbs, that testifies some prosperity of the local population and a positive commercial atmosphere in the city during the Genoa period of its history. But even after the Ottomans conquest of the Crimea in 1475, Spanish ceramics in a small amount still continued to come to Sudak. Moreover, the Italian majolica, which has been in fashion in Europa since the end of the 15th century, was also found in this site. Both of these facts are most likely related to the commercial activities of the Italians. So there is a reason to assume that the former owners of Sudak during some time after the conquest of the Crimea by the Turks still had access to local markets.

AQUAE CALIDAE 1, 2021

2019

The work considers the traces of early imports of the “sari” Pre-Mongol type of glazed ceramics discovered at the excavations of Bilyar settlement. All studied fragments were discovered at excavation 44 located in the central part of the inner city, which has been investigated since 2015.

Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Istoriya, 2017

Представлены результаты технико-технологического анализа керамики четырех памятников кулайской культурноисторической общности из Томского и Нарымского Приобья. В Томском Приобье в IV-III вв. до н.э.-IV в. н.э. зафиксировано несколько аналогичных традиций в подготовке формовочных масс, среди которых выделяется основная (глина + дресва + органика). В Нарымском Приобье зафиксированы другие навыки в отборе исходного сырья и основной рецепт подготовки формовочных масс: глина + шамот + органика. Различные культурные традиции изготовления керамики в Томском и Нарымском Приобье связаны с разными группами населения. Ключевые слова: Томское и Нарымское Приобье; ранний железный век; кулайская культурно-историческая общность; технико-технологический анализ; культурные контакты.