CERAMICS FROM UVEK SETTLEMENT ON THE BASIS OF ARCHIVAL MATERIALS

Abstract

The ceramic materials from Uvek settlement of the Golden Horde period based on preserved archival materials are published and briefl y characterized in the article. The described complexes and individual items have been collected by the Saratov Research Archival Commission and Istarkhet Research Society of Regional Ethnography. They were subsequently decommissioned and became lost for science. However, small and often very scarce information on the discovered items has preserved in the Record of museum items of the Saratov Research Archival Commission, and in the Commission’s archives (their major part is presently deposited in the State Archive of Saratov Oblast) and a number of publications. The author attempted to generalize and systematize this information, supplementing the descriptions of ceramic materials with references to the place and time of their discovery, details of the person from whom the items were received, and documents in which they have been mentioned. The items listed in the archival materials specifi ed in the appendices were apparently discovered at Ukek settlement in 1891-1921.