Olga S. Rumyantseva*, Constantine N. Belikov**
* Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow (o.roumiantseva@mail.ru)
** Institute for Single Crystals of National Academyof Sciences of the Ukraine, Kharkov (belikov@isc.kharkov.com)

Keywords: glass-making, Roman time, Bosporus, chemical composition of glass.

A study of the chemical composition of raw glass from the underwater excavation area by SEM-EDS analysis enabled us to correct the results obtained earlier (Rumyantseva, Ol’khovskiy, 2015). Five of six samples are similar in composition to glasses of the Levantine I group (table, nos. 1–5) and one to those of the “HIMT” group (table, no. 6; fig. 1, 2). These facts substantiate the conclusion derived from the data on the chemical and isotope composition of the finds under investigation: these originate from glass-making centres of the Syro-Palestinian region and the southeastern Mediterranean. They were intended for the production of glass articles in glass-working workshops of Asiatic Bosporus, undiscovered archaeologically now.