Stone vessels discovered in the medieval site of Costești-Gârlea (Ialoveni district) The present paper addresses the problem of the spreading of stone vessels in the urban settlements east of the Carpathians, controlled by the Golden...
moreStone vessels discovered in the medieval site of Costești-Gârlea (Ialoveni district)
The present paper addresses the problem of the spreading of stone vessels in the urban settlements east of the Carpathians, controlled by the Golden Horde in the 14th century. Two artefacts discovered in the well-known archaeological site at Costești-Gârlea (Ialoveni district) are studied as an example. The purpose of the paper is to provide new data on this category of vessels recovered during the archaeological excavations in the perimeter of the important Djuchid settlement from Botna Valley in the autumn of 2017.
The presented vestiges were found in the filling of a lightly deepened in the ground dwelling, located on a platform on the left side of the Botna river valley, strongly affected by the landslides. The assemblage was represented, along with the fragmentary stone containers, by the numerous and various categories of findings, such as various types of clay vessels, fragments of glass vessels, numerous faunistic remains, items made of iron, bronze, stone, burnt clay and bone, as well as 10 Djuchid copper coins, dated back to the 14th century. The vessels discussed here were made of gray stone (steatite), with the surface decorated in several levels with straight, zigzag and oblique incisions. The information obtained as a result of studying these original discoveries for our territory will complement the database on the morphology and provenance of the stone vessels, the territorial limits of spreading of this category of artefacts, as well as certain views regarding the economic life in the western part of the area subjected to the Gold Horde in the 14th century.
