Bocharov S.G., Maslovskiy A.N. Rare Groups of Imported Transportation Pottery in the Territory of the Golden Horde
Sergey G. Bocharov, Candidate of Sciences (History), Associate Professor, Vice-Director, Institute of History and Archaeology of Byzantium and the Black Sea Region, Head of the Department of Archaeology, Sevastopol State University, Universitetskaya St, 33, 299053 Sevastopol, Russian Federation
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Andrey N. Maslovskiy, Candidate of Sciences (History), Head of the Department of Archaeology, Azov Historical-Archeological and Paleontological Museum-Reserve, Moskovskaya St, 38/40, 346780 Azov, Russian Federation
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Abstract. The study of the mass ceramic complex of the Golden Horde state in all of its diversity is one of the most important areas of archaeological research for this period. This article presents information on several groups of imported container pottery that arrived on the territory of the Golden Horde in small quantities. Among them are three groups of amphorae, two groups of molded jugs, and groups of pithoi. The identification and description of such groups of imported pottery and the beginning of their targeted search lead to a rapid increase in the number of finds and an expansion of their geographical distribution. Information is provided on the morphology, technological features, and chronology of the arrival of the published vessels. Any assumptions about the place of their production today can only be hypothetical. The first group: yellow clay amphorae with a funnel-shaped neck (the time of their arrival to the territory of the Golden Horde is the mid-13th – early 14th centuries). The second group: wide-necked light-gloss amphorae with string imprints (arrived in 1310–1340). The third group: light-gloss amphorae with painting (arrived in the first half to the middle of the 14th century). The molded vessels are represented by two groups. The first group: brown molded jugs (they arrived in the territory of the Golden Horde in the late 13th – late 14th centuries). The second group: dark red molded jugs. Three groups of large vessels pithoi are distinguished. Pithoi with a trapezoidal rim of two groups, “brown” and “orange” (arrived on the territory of the Golden Horde in the second half of the 13th century), and a separate group of massive red-clay pithoi.
Key words: Golden Horde, imported pottery, trade, amphorae, pithoi, molded jugs.
Citation. Bocharov S.G., Maslovskiy A.N., 2026. Redkie gruppy tarnoy importnoy keramiki na territorii Zolotoy Ordy [Rare Groups of Imported Transportation Pottery in the Territory of the Golden Horde]. Nizhnevolzhskiy Arkheologicheskiy Vestnik [The Lower Volga Archaeological Bulletin], vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 189-219. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/nav.jvolsu.2026.3.8
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