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Sixth-century AD glassware from Jelica, Serbia—an increasingly complex picture of late antiquity glass composition

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In this paper, the chemical analyses of forty-two samples of glassware from the sixth to early seventh century AD Byzantine settlement of Gradina on Jelica, Serbia are reported, completing the previous study of forty windowpane samples from the same site. Apart from a single plant ash glass, all other glasses are natron-based, classified as Foy 2.1 (thirty-four), Foy 3.2 (six), and Roman (two). The ten colourless glasses from the assemblage are decolourised with manganese. Five glasses are intentionally coloured blue with cobalt and copper, one black with iron. Four blue glasses are opacified, one with antimony, one perhaps with tin. Some Jelica glass finds classified as Foy 3.2 are specific for having magnesium levels above those characteristic for série 3.2. Jelica glasses assigned to Foy 2.1 group were further divided into low iron (twenty), high iron (four), and very high iron (six) subgroups. The overall compositional pattern of Jelica samples identified as Foy 2.1 suggest that different sands with different heavy mineral suites and sources of lime were used in their making, as well as different levels of recycling. Our findings indicate that the reasons for the compositional blurring of Foy 3.2 and Foy 2.1 are not limited to technological reasons such as recycling, but also include variations in the sand minerals. The results support the picture of the dominance of Foy 2.1 and Foy 3.2 types of glass in central and eastern Balkans and on the Macedonian-Thracian coast during the sixth century AD. Our findings, together with the apparent absence of Levantine glass from this region reported until now, suggest that different trade routes were supplying these regions with Eastern Mediterranean raw glass from those supplying Adriatic Sea coasts.

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The samples are from the Jelica-Gradina site, Project No. 177012 of the Ministry of Culture and Information of Serbia, led by proffesor Dr. Mihailo Milinković from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade.

The authors are thankful to the National Museum in Čačak and Mihailo Milinković for providing and selecting the samples, and to Milica Marić Stojanović from the National Museum of Serbia for selection and preparation of the samples. Photographs: Veljko Ilić, National Museum Belgrade.

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Roman Balvanović acknowledges the support by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Serbia, Project “Physics and Chemistry with Ion Beams”, No. III45006. The work of Žiga Šmit was partly supported by the Slovenian Research Agency (research core funding No. P6-0283, Archaeological and Archaeometric Research of Portable Archaeological Heritage).

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Balvanović, R., Šmit, Ž. Sixth-century AD glassware from Jelica, Serbia—an increasingly complex picture of late antiquity glass composition. Archaeol Anthropol Sci 12, 94 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01031-3

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