About the collection

Gonio, Khelvachauri Municipality

Got from accidental find

Size: 62.5X1.5 cm

Gold

This massive object made of eight braided wires that form coniferous-like ornament in four rows. Both ends terminate in fluting spherical globules and hoops soldered to them. The coincidence part is adorned with three hoops. According of investigators of the hoard, not excluded that a statue of the golden youth was hanging over it (see: Lordkipanidze Otar, Mikeladze Teimuraz et Khakhoutaichvili David, Le Trèsor de Gonio, Tbilissi, 1980: 74).

Batumi Archaeological Museum Collection Inv. № 1: 12-106

Bibliography:

Lordkipanidze Otar, Mikeladze Teimuraz et Khakhoutaichvili David, Le Trèsor de Gonio, Tbilissi, 1980: 18, pls 51-52; Kakhidze Amiran, Shalikadze Tamar and Partenadze Tamar, Batumi Archaeological Museum Treasure, Catalogue, Batumi, 2015: 96, fig. 96.

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