A new exhibition project «Jugs and kumgans of the 8th-15th centuries» is presented in the Sudak fortress.

CrimeaPRESS reports:

The exhibition will run until July 30.

In the Museum-Reserve «Sudak Fortress» with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Crimea, an exhibition «Jugs and Kumgans of the VIII-XV centuries» was opened. The exposition includes unique exhibits from the funds of the museum-reserve, discovered during archaeological expeditions of different years.

Opening the exhibition, the Deputy Director of the Museum-Reserve Valeria Vorotilova addressed the audience with a welcoming speech. The first curatorial tour of the new exhibition was conducted by Tatyana Konova, a specialist in exposition and exhibition activities of the museum-reserve. She introduced the guests to unique exhibits — medieval jugs and kumgans, their key characteristics, features of manufacture and use in everyday life.

The potters of Sugdei-Soldaya were engaged in the local production of jugs, but the population of the medieval city also used imported products of Byzantine, Mediterranean, Constantinople, Trebizond, Golden Horde and Turkish production. Dishes were often taken with them on the road, and therefore fragments of medieval Sudak pots and jugs are found by archaeologists at excavations in Kaffa, Balaklava, Azak, Zakubanye, Zadonye, ​​Madzhar and Saray— said the organizers of the exhibition.

The presented objects find analogies among the production of medieval ceramics of Taurica and testify to the preservation of constant trade contacts with the peoples of the North Caucasus, Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire.

Exhibition will continue until July 30th.

Photo: press service of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Crimea.

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