Rare glass cup used to adorn rich Romans' dwellings found in Crimea

[FfFfFfFF 58,119]

A discovery made in Frontovoye-3 necropolis in Crimea shows that during the Roman Empire there were more centers of glass production, beyond those known until now.

The cup came from a workshop on the outskirts of the Roman Empire. The glass cup, adorned with a snake, was made of mixed composition glass, which means that the craftsmen used glass shards in its manufacture. As a rule, this technology was used in workshops that had difficulties in importing high-quality raw materials.

 

The goblet is made of clear, colorless glass with a slight greenish tint, and is decorated with floral decorations of opaque white glass and translucent turquoise.  This decoration is known as “serpent thread decoration”, according to archaeologists, because the lines of the ornament resemble writhing snakes.

The glass cup was found in the sepulcher, which has not been looted by thieves, of a woman between 25 and 45 years old. Therefore, archaeologists were able to fully explore the place and watch how the culture and life of the local barbarian community have changed over the course of nearly 300 years. 

 

Source - https://arkeonews.net/the-discovery-that-surprised-archaeologists-a-rare-glass-cup-adorning-the-table-of-rich-romans-in-crimea/

[RAMROD 117,035]

Now, is it big enough to eat cereals with?

[Roughhouse Dandy 13,612]

22 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

Now, is it big enough to eat cereals with?

RAMROD comin in with the vital questions. We thank you

[RAMROD 117,035]

1 minute ago, Roughhouse Dandy said:

RAMROD comin in with the vital questions. We thank you

They call me Brains with capital B for a reason 

[FfFfFfFF 58,119]

On 4/25/2022 at 12:08 PM, FfFfFfFF said:

Therefore, archaeologists were able to fully explore the place and watch how the culture and life of the local barbarian community have changed over the course of nearly 300 years. 

I wrote a paper about the relations between the Greek colonists and locals living on Black Sea's shores once and now I have the first opportunity to brag about it.  Essentially, in Antiquity the locals of Crimea were the Scythians and Cimmerians, Iranophone poulations of Indo-European origin that migrated from the Steppes. But the northern shores of the Black Sea itself where cities such as Odesa and Khersones were founded seems to have been mostly unhabited. Greek colonists and local Scythians were largely isolated from each other, we know this because of the fact that economic goods didn't spread out in the areas surrounding the colonies. This differs to the situation in other places, like the north-weastern coast of the Black Sea where locals did exist (more inland and not in close proximity with the beaches) and accepted Greek economic and cultural influence, or the east of the Black Sea, where the warlike locals were, on the contrary, too hostile to allow Greek settlers come in. A discussion some have is to what extend were the Romans able to romanize Crimea (there are Ancient Latin inscriptions found in the peninsula). Obviously in modern times, no local Romance population survived in Crimea (which was traditionally Tatar and later Russian majority), however, Romanian pastorialists transiting the area settled and founded some villages in the peninsula.