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The aim of this article is to examine the typological spectrum of Roman glass vessels discovered in the Cherniakhiv/Sântana de Mure? area. The analysis is primarily focused on the chronology of the circulation and distribution patterns of the various glass types of Roman origin represented in Eastern Europe during the late Roman and early Migration periods. In my opinion, there are only two conditions that allow us to associate certain types of barbarian glass vessels with Roman origin with relative assurance: if their production within the Empire is documented in written or archaeological sources, and if they have identical parallels among the widespread synchronous glassware forms in the Roman provinces. A total of fourteen types of glassware from the Cherniakhiv/Sântana de Mure? area meet the aforementioned criteria. These include mainly cups and beakers, which were widely used in various Roman territories. The majority of glass vessels of Roman origin come from funerary assemblages. It seems likely that one of the main transit points for glass objects from different parts of the Empire into the area of the Cherniakhiv/Sântana de Mure? culture was the Lower Danube provinces. Another possible route of imported glass goods to the local population may also have passed through the North Pontic cities. First introduced into the Cherniakhiv/Sântana de Mure? area in the second half of the third century, imported glass objects circulated alongside the other categories of the local material culture until the second third of the fifth century. Over this time, their number increased considerably, from a few heterogeneous glass cups in the early phases of the culture to several dozen rather uniform conical beakers during the early Migration period. This shift appears to have occurred approximately in the mid-fourth century and was evidently related to the significant changes in Roman-Gothic interaction following the recognition of the latter as foederati of the Empire by Constantine I. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
