Glass Vessels from the Children’s Burials of the Alexandrovskie Skaly 1 Necropolis in the Eastern Crimea
Journal: Stratum plus Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology
Year: 2023

We publish a collection of glass vessels originating from a burial ground of the 1st—2nd centuries AD, excavated in the vicinity of Kerch. We discuss their assortment, chronology, and role in the funerary rite. A characteristic feature of the funerary rite is the predominance of perfume vessels in children’s burials, i. e. balsamaria of various sizes, and almost complete absence of tableware, characteristic mainly of male graves. The planigraphic distribution of burials with glass vessels in bur