About the collection

Batumitsikhe (Batumi Fortress) is one of the leading centres of household ceramics in Eastern Black Sea region. Various motives used to be applied while adorning the householdware. Covering outer fold of the mouth with netlike or tilted semi triangular sections seems to have been quite common. The area at the neck is encircled with wide hoyzontal furrows or spiry, twisted, ornament. The adornment is often repeated when decorating the kvevri shoulder and the body. Covering the vessel with the vertical ranges, at the beginning of which the large spotty knobs are applied, is quite common. Often, the body furrows are replaced with relief horizontal line of the wavy ornament. Images of concentrated circles must be connected with the sun symbolic.

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