Abstract | Glass products, especially the Golden Horde jewelry, found on the city monuments, have been numerous for a long time. The Golden Horde Bolgar belongs to such cities as well, but only in recent years, excavations in the central part of the town near the main market and close to the glassmaking workshop that had been earlier in that place, an unprecedented amount of glass jewelry was found: first of all, thousands of beads and pendants of steady types, which can be called standardized products, with a distinct permanent recipe of the chemical composition of glass and dyes as well as morphological and technological standards.
These characteristics correspond to the second largest category of Bolgar glass-makers’ products – rings. The article is devoted to the preliminary publication and introducing Bolgar glass rings got as a result of field researches under the direction of V.Yu. Koval and D.Yu. Badeyev. |