სამცხე-ჯავახეთის ისტორიულ მუზეუმში დაცული სამი ვერცხლის თასის ატრიბუციისა და დათარიღების საკითხისათვის
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2023
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ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტის გამომცემლობა
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Present paper deals with the question of attribution and dating of the three
silver bowls – one special sample group of toreutics – preserved in the
Samtskhe-Javakheti Historical Museum. In the exposition of the museum
artefacts are displayed with the following information: “Silver bowls.
Discovered in the ruins of Vani Caves, destroyed during the earthquake in 1283.
One of the artefacts is gilded. The Coat of Arms of the Bagrationi Royal
Dynasty – “the Coat of Arms of king Solomon” – is depicted on one bowl,
which indicates that bowls were a donation from the royal house to the church.
XII century”.
We argue that the dating of these artefacts is not correct and that they
belong to a completely different period, namely – to the Late Antiquity. It is
also possible that the cups belong to the special group of objects – so-called
Ibero-Sasanian artefacts. If our preliminary hypothesis is correct, a more
thorough study of the bowls is needed. In order to be sure in their identification,
it is crucial to carefully and thoroughly research all artefacts from the Late
Antiquity in Georgia. As we know, the cultural ties of the Georgian states with
the outside world in this period became particularly intense. During this period,
the influence of the cultures of the Ancient Rome and Sassanian Iran on
Georgia has been immense: as a result, the overall cultural picture in Georgia is
extremely complex and diverse. Despite the fact that numerous artefacts of the Late Antiquity discovered
on the territory of Georgia have been the subject of scientific research for a long
time, based on the analysis of the artistic features of glyptic, jewelry or
toreutics, it is still possible to clarify certain problems or to evaluate them in a
new way. As a rule, their research is carried out in connection with a certain
archaeological complex (as it is in the case of the bowls in the Samtskhe-
Javakheti Historical Museum). Sometimes this might not lead us to a thorough
result. In certain cases, artistic analysis of a sample and studying its stylistic
features might give us more detailed information. In our opinion we are dealing
with such situation in the case of the three bowls of the Samtskhe-Javakheti
Historical Museum.
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https://geohistory.humanities.tsu.ge/ge/procedings/83-shromebi/178-shromebi-19.html
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ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი, საქართველოს ისტორიის ინსტიტუტის შრომები, XIX, თბილისი, 2023, გვ. 9-29 / Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Institute of Georgian History Proceedings, XIX, Tbilisi, 2023, pp. 9-29