Оконное стекло с поселения Горзувитыи Мангупского городища в Крыму:химический состав, происхождение и хронологияв историко-культурном контексте

va, A. V. Mastykova, V. E. NaumenkoWindow Glass from Gorzuvity and Mangup Fort in the Crimea: Chemical Composition, Origin andChronology in the Historical and Cultural ContextChemical composition of 39 window panes of the Early and Middle Byzantine periods was studied with SEM-EDStechnique. They originate from the Gorzuvity settlement in the Crimea Southern coast with the ruins of two churches, andMangup, the largest medieval fortress in the SW Crimea. The presence of glass of groups Foy-3.2/2.1 and HIMT suggeststhat the earliest structures with glazed windows could have emerged on Mangup in the 5th century at the latest — i. e., beforethe construction of the Byzantine fortress. A homogenous composition of glass from Gorzuvity suggests a single period ofglazing windows of structures existing here — the “lower” church with a shrine dated probably to the 11th century (terminusante quem for the church construction) and some stone structures at the settlement. 37 samples represent natron glass ofthe Egyptian origin. Most of window panes are related to the 9th—10th/11th cc. Their glass belongs to the series Foy-2.2, theresult of the recycling of the earlier glass of the 2nd half of the 5th/6th — mid-7th centuries (series Foy-2.1). It suggests thatthe remains of monumental structures of the early Byzantine period (window panes and probably tesserae) were used asraw materials during the construction campaign at Gorzuvity and Mangup in the middle Byzantine period. Two fragmentsfrom Mangup of mixed-alkali composition originate from the contexts of the 15 th c., where they could get from disturbedearlier deposits