Olga S. Rumyantseva^1,*, Irina A. Saprykina^1,**, Sergey V. Voroniatov^2,***, Alexander A. Trifonov^3,****, Dmitry A. Khanin^4,5,*****

¹Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia
²The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
³ZEISS Russia & CIS, Moscow, Russia
⁴Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
⁵Institute of Experimental Mineralogy RAS, Chernogolovka, Russia

*E-mail: o.roumiantseva@mail.ru
**E-mail: dolmen200@mail.ru
***E-mail: s.voroniatov@gmail.com
****E-mail: blast_88@mail.ru
*****E-mail: d.khanin@iem.ac.ru

Keywords: Eastern European champlevé enamels, the Middle and Upper Dnieper regions, the South-East Baltic, the period of Roman influence.

The article publishes the results of a chemical and technological study of objects from the circle of East European champlevé enamels in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum. The metal bases of most of the jewelry items were made of multicomponent alloys with a low zinc concentration – an evidence of a permanent alloy remelting. Traces of tinning have been preserved on some items. The cells for the enamel are carved along the grooves marked during the casting process. No territorial or chronological differences in the technique and composition of metal bases were identified based on the available material. Polychrome jewelry demonstrates a wide range of enameling techniques, including those not typical for “Barbarian” enamels. The study revealed some features in the composition of the red enamel that mark items of an early period of the style development and objects presumably associated with East Baltic production centres.

DOI: 10.31857/S086960630013707-6