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    Published: 2020-11-16
    Vol. 68 No. 3 (2020)

    State and history of research on a glass goblet from the 2nd half of the 12th c. found in a woman’s grave in Krylos

    Karol Kollinger
    The Quarterly of the History of Material Culture
    Section: Studies and Materials
    DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM68.2020.3.001

    Abstract

    The article presents the circumstances and context of finding a glass goblet in a woman’s grave in the Orthodox cathedral in the village of Krylos (near Halych, now in Ukraine) in 1937 (fig. 1) and an attempt at reconstructing the shape of this find. In addition to an overview of research on this topic, the article analyses the line of argumentation reflected in the literature, the ways in which researchers used their predecessors’ findings to create their own narratives and the sources that were explored in this process. The author concludes that it still impossible to identify with certainty either the woman in whose grave the goblet had been found or the man buried close to her in a sarcophagus (Yaroslav Osmomysl?). The dating of the goblet to the 12th c. is generally not questioned. The shape of the vessel was reconstructed on the basis of the synthetic monograph Staryy Halych from 1944. For this reconstruction, it was assumed that the lower part of the vessel resembled in shape the
    bottoms of glass vessels excavated in Vyshhorod near Kiev in 1935, and probably in Kiev itself in 1936–1937. A similarity of the Krylos goblet to the Kiev finds had already been noted by its discoverer Yaroslav Pasternak, but this fact was overlooked in later literature. The finds from Vyshhorod were first noted by Boris A. Rybakov, whose laconic mention in the 1948 study Remeslo drevney Rusi was cited quite uncritically by later researchers. However, publications lacked details on those items, especially on their dating and the context of their finding. According to an newer article by a Ukrainian researchers (2014), the glass vessel from the grave in Krylos is now in the collection of the National Museum in Lviv. Research that is currently being done in Ukrainian and Russian archives and museums reveals new and new data on excavations carried out in the first half of the 20th c., which may prove very valuable in describing the history of the single vessel focused on in this article as well as in exploring a wide range of other topics.

    Keywords:

    glass, vessel, Ruthenia, Halych, Krylos, Vyshhorod (Ukraine), Yaroslav Osmomysl

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    Kollinger, K. (2020). State and history of research on a glass goblet from the 2nd half of the 12th c. found in a woman’s grave in Krylos. The Quarterly of the History of Material Culture, 68(3), 271–288. https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM68.2020.3.001

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