Pages: 263-284 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp253263284

The chemical composition of 27 glass samples used in jewelry (beads and pendants) from the Scythian burial grounds of Glinoe/Vodovod and Glinoe/Sad, excavated on the left bank of the Lower Dniester region, has been studied using SEM-EDS and LA-ICP-MS methods. All the beads originated from the securely dated contexts of the mid-4th to the turn of the 3rd century BC. The majority of ornaments are made of natron glass, likely of Levantine origin. They are made of blue, turquoise, yellow, red, colorless, and naturally colored blue-green glass. A small series of beads is made of glass with a low content of aluminum, strontium, and barium, along with an elevated concentration of zirconium, likely of Egyptian origin. The blue glass is colored with cobalt colorant of a heterogeneous composition; the composition of the colorless glass is also heterogeneous. Beads made of natron glass could have been imported to the region from Central European or North Pontic glassworking workshops. A bead, made of plant ash glass and presumably of Mesopotamian origin, appears to be an occasional import here.

Keywords: Iron Age, Scythians, left bank of the Lower Dniester, beads, glass, chemical composition, , SEM-EDS, LA-ICP-MS

Information about authors:

Olga Rumyantseva (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-5648-6079

Maria Chervyakovskaya (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Chemistry. A. N. Zavaritsky Institute of Geology and Geochemistry, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Acad. Vonsovski St., 15, Yekaterinburg, 620016, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-7075-5433

Vasiliy Chervyakovskiy (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation). A. N. Zavaritsky Institute of Geology and Geochemistry, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Acad. Vonsovski St., 15, Yekaterinburg, 620016, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-0400-6819

Vitalij Sinika (Moscow, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-1621-9205