Uysal, Zekiye2025-01-272025-01-2720201300-57072636-8064https://doi.org/10.29135/std.674393https://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/411313https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/28703Samsat (Samosat), has been submerged under the Ataturk Dam today, served as the capital of the Kingdom of Commagene.It is known that the city still remained to be an important settlement, after it was conquered by the Romans. Samsat was conquered by Muslims toward the end of the 7th century.In the following centuries, the city, which was alternately ruled by the Ummayads, the Abbasids, and the Byzantines, was seized by the Seljuk emirates in the middle, of, 12th century. Then it was chronologically reigned by the Ilkhanids, the Dulkadirians, and the Ottomans. The ruins of the city, referred to as Sumeysat in the Islamic sources, were studied by various researchers before it was submerged under the dam. However, its archaeological significance was well understood in the course of the rescue excavations. The site was excavated by Prof. Nimet Ozguc and her crew between 1978 and 1989. A great variety of finds, such as ceramic, metal, and glass objects, which were dated to the Medieval Age, were unearthed. The present paper studies the bracelets as glass finds. Because the stratigraphic details concerning the glass finds in the published excavation reports, books, and museum records are not adequate enough, stylistic and technical characteristics of the finds were operationalized to identify the' origin and dating of the bracelets. 22 pieces among the numerous bracelets, recovered in Samsat, were catalogued for the purpose of the study. The bracelets can be grouped into five categories, i.e. twisted, flat, grooved, parallel-thread, and painted. They were mainly, defined in two techniques: trail decorated with seamed body (lif sarma) and rod spinning (halka cevirme) with seamless body. The used colors are black in the painted bracelets and blue, green, and their shades in the other types.The painted bracelets, made by enameling glass, were dated to the Byzantine Period, i.e. 10th-12th century.No precise dating of the grooved, flat, and spun bracelets could be performed.No kilns were observed in the Samsat excavations, but a great many glass chunks, suggesting glass-focused production, were recovered. Due to the rich profusion of the glass finds and the presence of the glass chunks, Samsat should be listed among the Medieval glass production centers.trinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSamsatGlassBraceletIslamic glass artByzantine glass artArticle29130131710.29135/std.674393N/AWOS:000591685700013411313