THE ISSUES AND PROSPECTS FOR RESEARCH ON THE GLASS VESSELS VI – I BC FROM NORTH PONTIC AREA: HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ASPECT
Journal Title: Записки історичного факультету - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 27
Abstract
The paper treats the history of research on core-formed glass. Origin of glass is seen in the innovations invented by artisans of Mesopotamia or Ancient Egypt. There are also theories on Caucasian or polycentric origin of the most ancient glass. Most authors ignore the recent results obtained in North Pontic area, where the early glass objects were found in Usatove culture contexts (burials and a hoard) of late IV millennium BC. These finds gave to A.S. Ostroverkhov a possibility to define a “proto-school” of glass-making in the south Eastern Europe at the very dawn of the Bronze Age. This pioneering hypothesis is still badly known abroad. The technology of core-formed glass is still a territory of vivid debate where experiment and ancient technological stigmata play equally important role. Two main directions could be defined in the core-formed glass studies. A group of researchers depend heavily on scientific approach: chemical composition analysis, microscopy of technological shapes, X-rays analysis etc. Other students employ mostly typological method, with artistic, iconographic and historical emphasis. Both ways appeared to be fruitful, however rarely applied together or in meaningful comparison of the obtained results. Soviet and post-Soviet (Ukrainian, Georgian and Russian) archaeologists, art historians and scientists produced a considerable body of information on ancient glass. The chemical analysis was accompanied by typological definition of shapes and technological studies. The complex approach resulted in detailed reconstruction of ancient art, craft and trade, however unfortunately it usually covered just specific objects (Kurdzhips amphoriskos) or selected vessels from particular sites of interest (cemeteries or separate burials). Author expects that systematic application of complex (scientific and typological) ap proach to whole entirety of the ancient glass found in North Pontic area up to date (including also numerous but fragmented finds from settlement contexts) will shed new light on the history of this attractive category of artistic artifacts.
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A. Kolesnychenko
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