About the collection

Gonio, Khelvachauri Municipality

Got from accidental find

Size: 1.2X1.2 cm

Gold

Local manufacture: biconical, large, hollow. In the middle part they bear dots in two rows and one in the ends. The rest surface is covered by dotted triangles, rhombuses, crosses and rosettes. At the bottom of the beads there is soldered a wire along with dotted belt. Similar beads have been found on the right bank of river of Enguri, close to village of Tagiloni, western Georgia.

Batumi Archaeological Museum Collection Inv. № 20110-18;

Bibliography:

Lordkipanidze Otar, Mikeladze Teimuraz et Khakhoutaichvili David, Le Trèsor de Gonio, Tbilissi, 1980: 65, pls 37.1, 38; Kakhidze Amiran, Shalikadze Tamar and Partenadze Tamar, Batumi Archaeological Museum Treasure, Catalogue, Batumi Archaeological Museum, 2015: 71, fig. 95.

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