Window Glass from Gorzuvity and Mangup Fort in the Crimea: Chemical Composition, Origin and Chronology in the Historical and Cultural Context
Journal: Stratum plus Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology
Year: 2023

Chemical composition of 39 window panes of the Early and Middle Byzantine periods was studied with SEM-EDS technique. They originate from the Gorzuvity settlement in the Crimea Southern coast with the ruins of two churches, and Mangup, the largest medieval fortress in the SW Crimea. The presence of glass of groups Foy-3.2/2.1 and HIMT suggests that the earliest structures with glazed windows could have emerged on Mangup in the 5th century at the latest — i. e., before the construction of the Byz