The Collection of Ottoman Tobacco Pipes from Azov Museum-Reserve in Russia
Journal: Journal of the General Union of Arab Archaeologists
Year: 2018

(En) The Azov museum-reserve (Azov city, the Russian Federation) hold more than 1000 examples (intact ones and fragments) of clay tobacco pipes. All of them are from the excavations carried out on the territory of the former Ottoman fortress Azak (Azov old district) and its surroundings. Until recently, this archeological material has been left unstudied and has not been put into scientific use. The great bulk of finds (over 80%) are Muslim (Turkish) tobacco pipes. These are pipes made by the ce