Glass Bracelets of the Eski Kermen Settlement
A. Yu. Lobodaa,b,* (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4926-1140), E. A. Khairedinovac, A. M. Ismagulovb,
P. V. Gurevaa (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8239-778X), E. S. Kovalenkoa (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0496-8129),
E. Yu. Tereschenkoa,b,d (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5035-6978), and E. B. Yatsishinaa,b (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7652-7253)
a National Research Center Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
b Institute of Chemical Reagents and High Purity Chemicals, National Research Center Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
c Institute of Archaeology of Crimea, Russian Academy of Sciences, Simferopol’, Russia
d Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, Federal Research Center Crystallography and Photonics,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Correspondence to: *e-mail: lobodaau@mail.ru
Received 11 April, 2022
Abstract—The results of studying the composition and internal structure of fragments of blue glass bracelets found during excavations of a medieval settlement on the Eski-Kermen plateau (Republic of Crimea) are given. The composition of the glass material of the studied items is similar to typical Byzantine bracelets of the 10th–12th centuries and probably refers to a mixed type of presumably recycled soda–ash compositions. One bracelet perhaps differs from the other two in terms of the origin of the main glass-forming raw material, i.e., sand. An X-ray tomography study reveals the peculiarities of the manufacture of the bracelets by the pulling method.
DOI: 10.1134/S2635167622050111