About the collection

Kapandipi, Khelvachauri Municipality

Got from accidental find

Size: 8X5 cm

Gold, garnet, blue paste

This local jewellery with bird, attribute of the Mother Goddess made of one piece platelet. The lower half is rectangular in shape, the upper one represents an isosceles triangle. On the sides there are placed wires of false granulation. The top parts are adorned with the double volute-like images. The central part has a denticulated setting filled with a large oval garnet bead. Vacant space is decorated with rosettes, rhombuses, triangles and some globules. The central image of the triangle is represented by a hexagram made of blue paste placed into a plain setting. Vacant space is filled with some globules, a triangle and rosettes. On the right side of the triangle there is placed a bird sculptural image (the second one is lost).

Batumi Archaeological Museum Collection Inv. № VI: 06-94/2;

Bibliography: Kakhidze Amiran, Shalikadze Tamar and Partenadze Tamar, Batumi Archaeological Museum Treasure, Catalogue, Batumi, 2015: 54-55, fig. 70.

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