Svetlana I. Valiulina^a,#

^aKazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia

^#E-mail: svaliulina@inbox.ru

Keywords: Bolgar, Golden Horde, 14th century, glassmaking, jewellery, finger-rings, chemical composition.

In a number of the Golden Horde towns, including Bolgar, glass jewellery belongs to mass finds. Only in recent years, excavations in the central part of this archaeological site in the area of the main market and in the neighborhood of the glass-making workshop that preceded it have yielded an unprecedented number (thousands) of glass pieces of adornment, primarily, of beads attributed to stable types. These are actually standardized products, which, in addition to morphological and technological standards, show definitely regular glass formulation. These features also characterize the second largest production category of Bolgar glassmakers – finger-rings. The article analyzes and introduces Bolgar glass finger-rings obtained as a result of field investigation under V.Yu. Koval and D.Yu. Badeev (the works was conducted by the Institute of Archaeology RAS as part of the Bulgarian expedition of the Institute of Archaeology under the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan).

DOI: 10.31857/S0869606322020209