'Novy Svet Ware', an Exceptional Cargo of Glazed Wares from a 13th-Century Shipwreck near Sudak (Crimea, Ukraine)—Morphological Typology and Laboratory Investigations (original) (raw)
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Published in Actas del VIII Congreso Internacional de Cerámica Medieval. Ciudad Real (2009) TOMO II, pp. 851-856, 2009
The underwater excavations of a shipwreck in Novy Svet (Crimea) reveal an exceptional cargo of glazed wares. The ship, which according to texts may be a Pisan vessel sunk in 1277, carried two main cargoes of glazed ceramics, together with wares of various types present in smaller quantities. The latter are seen as personal belongings or material used by the crew. Their origins may be as diverse as northern Italy, the Levantine coast, Constantinople, Cyprus and other locations in the Byzantine and Seljouk territories. Some of these hypotheses are confirmed by chemical analysis.
The authors analyze the data from the excavations at Azak and Crimea towns, which brings new information on the establishment of the most powerful glazed ceramics production’s center in the territory of the Golden Horde – the pottery manufactory of the Southeast Crimea towns (Solkhat, Сaffa, Sudak). These findings are important for the research of an initial stage of the Golden Horde towns investigated to the least degree as a whole, and for studying the history of pottery establishment at these towns in particular. Archaeometry of the closed assemblage with coins, found at Azak, gives us a unique opportunity to do this. Definable characteristics of this ceramics group are described here, as well as changes of the glazed jars ornamentation for about fifty years. Two chronological phases of the pottery production’s formation have been distinguished. Assumptions of the ways of its establishment are also made.
Cercetări Arheologice 31.2, 2024
During the second half of the 13 th and throughout the 14 th centuries, Crimea was at the epicenter of multi-ethnic and multi-cultural interactions between East and West that contributed to its economic recovery. The production of glazed ceramics became one of the new and intensively developing industries in Crimea and was one of the markers of its economic growth. It is commonly believed that it was local glazed pottery that flooded the markets of Eastern Europe and the Black Sea region for almost two centuries from the late 13 th century until the Ottoman conquest of the Black Sea region in the last quarter of the 15 th century. These ceramics have usually been joined in the 'South-Eastern Crimea' or SEK group, which, as generally considered, combined the products of the big pottery centers in Solkhat, Sougdaia, Caffa, and their vicinity. However, the attempts to identify subgroups associated with each of them are still hypothetical, largely because they are not based on material from the workshops themselves. So, we focused on the study of local glazed pottery manufacturing in Southeastern Crimea by analyzing the historical background of the emergence and development of this industry and by supplementing, clarifying, and detailing the topography, the pottery repertoires, and the chronology for each of the pottery workshops through archaeological materials.
The second volume of this specialized continued collection of research papers “Glazed Pottery of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea Region, 10th – 18th Centuries” contains studies of mass archaeological materials — glazed pottery — from a vast region encompassing countries from the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Far East and Eurasian steppes, dated by the High and Late Middle Ages. The goal of this continued edition is to attract the attention of the medievalists to glazed pottery and, particularly, to introduce earlier unknown archaeological complexes with glazed pottery and results of various physical-chemical studies of ceramic clays and glazes for scientific discussion. The volume includes contributions from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Uzbekistan and is meant for specialists in history, archaeology, ceramic studies, ethnography, museum studies, history students and all those interested in medieval material culture.
Glazed Ceramics of the Early Ottoman Crimea
16th International Congress of Turkish Art. October 3-5, 2019, Ankara: Proceedings, vol. 3, 2023
After the successful campaign of grand vizier Gedik Ahmed Pasha to the Crimea in 1475, the Southern Taurica and the eastern edge of the Kerch Peninsula, which previously belonged to the Genoese and the local principality of Theodoro, became part of the Ottoman Empire. This event, as well as new political and economic realities, had a significant impact on the material culture of the local population. Substantial alterations have also occurred in the ceramic assemblage. The aim of the research is an exploration of the changes in the glazed ceramic assemblages of Crimea in the Early Ottoman time. The study is based on materials from the well-dated archaeological contexts of the end of the 15th and 16th centuries from several Crimean sites.
CRIMEAN LOCAL GLAZED POTTERY OF THE 15TH CENTURY
The workshop of glazed ceramics were started in Crimea from the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th centuries and were associated with appearance of Golden Horde settlements on the South-East and with infiltration of new technology and traditions from territory of Byzantine to the Southern and South-Western parts of peninsula. To the 15th century the local leader and “trendsetter” in the glazed pottery manufacturing in Crimea became the Genoese colony of Caffa. The tableware of so-called “Caffa style” were wide-spread in Nothern Black sea region through the first - third quarters of the 15th century until the capture of the peninsula by the Turks in 1475. The paper presents a new study of this ceramic, their detailed typology, chronology and distribution.
Proceeding of the 12th Congress AIECM3 On Medieval and Modern Period Mediterranean Ceramics. , 2021
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