Cast glass from the Chernyakhov culture settlement of Komarov: prestigious vessels or raw materials for a glass workshop?

A number of fragments from cast glass vessels - of blue (1st century AD) andmillefiori glass (dating to the time of the site occupation or to an earlier period) - werediscovered at the settlement of Komarov (the Middle Dniester, Ukraine) dating to the LateRoman time. Most fragments are related to sets of glass that can be interpreted as glasscullet used in secondary glass working, which was documented at the site. Some sets ofglass come from dwelling houses, whose chronology implies that this production existedat the site in the middle-third quarter of the 4th century. This conclusion is also confirmedby the data on the glass composition. The types of dwelling houses suggest that the localpopulation took part in supply cullet to the workshop. The cullet contains both glass,which was, probably, collected at the site or in its vicinity, and imported glass (pieces ofwindow panes and cast vessels).