A few days after the discovery of one Roman statue perfectly preserved, depicting the god Hermes, news of another exceptional one arrives from Bulgaria archaeological discovery. Off the coast of Chengene Bay, less than ten kilometers from the city of Burgas, in the Black Sea, they were recovered 112 glass objects, evidence of active commercial exchanges in the era of the Ottoman Empire.
Before the underwater expedition that led to the discovery of these artefacts, the collections of the National History Museum and the Regional History Museum of Burgas numbered 310 meticulously documented vases (intact or fragmented). The discovery comes in the wake of research conducted in 2020 and 2021, at various locations in the bay, at a depth of approximately -2 and -2,5 meters.
According to archaeologists, it is extremely likely that the glass cargo was lost from a ship during a storm and it is possible that the wreck is located a short distance from the place where the fragments were found.
Accurate underwater archaeological research has made it possible to locate the area where the greatest number of glass finds are concentrated. Such finding It also offers a new perspective on the still not adequately analyzed topic of glass production and to the trade in the Balkans in the late Ottoman period.
For glass artefacts, scholars have hypothesized aMurano origin, which can be placed at a temporal level between the second half of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century.
After the conservation interventions, the glass recovered in Chengene Bay will be visitable at the Archaeological Museum of the city of Burgas.
Source: finestrasullarte.info
