For more than a century of research of late Byzantine glazed pottery
of Crimea a considerable amount of
information has been accumulated. These data deserves a comprehensive
analysis, which is proposed in the historiographical
review. There are three stages in the history of the study. The works of the
first one (late XIX — first quarter of XX centuries), which based on materials
from the museum collections and random finds, were mostly descriptive and
related to the history of art. The second stage (second quarter — 70-s of the
XX century) is characterized by increase of excavations of the medieval
monuments and intensive accumulation of new archaeological data, which
stimulated the beginning of their deeper comprehension. However, due to
various reasons, the elaboration of a detailed chronology and typology of
findings of the late XIII—XV centuries had not been done. At the third stage,
covering the last two decades of the XX — beginning of the XX centuries, the
quantity and quality of publications concerning the ceramics of the XIII—XV
centuries from Crimea are significantly increasing. The materials from
excavation of some pottery workshops, as well as other objects with narrow
dates in the interval from the last third of the XIII to the third quarter of
the XV century were introduced into scientific publications. New
methodological approaches for working with ceramics finding have been
proposed too. These achievements made it possible to reach appreciable
progress in the various directions of ceramological
researches (typology, precise dating, archaeometric
study etc.), and also prepared the basis for future general monographic
works, the urgency of which is now evident.
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Key words: Crimea, Medieval archaeology,
glazed ceramics, XIII—XIV centuries, historiography.
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