Avgia Church (Batumi, Georgia)

• Authors: Mamuladze, Shota , Kamadadze, Kakhaber , Kakhidze, Emzar

Abstracts

EN

The church discussed in the paper is situated in Avgia, on the outskirts of Batumi. It is an early Christian period hall-type church with northern and southern wings. The ground plan of the whole structure resembles the well-known layout of the croix libre. The whole building is 23.85 m long and 19.0 m wide – including the arms. It has a projecting semi-circular apse whose radius is 6.05 m. The main space of the church is divided into three parts. It consists of a transverse hall, which may have operated as a narthex, a hall, and an altar apse. The floor of the structure was covered with pinkish lime mortar, a mixture of small pebbles and ceramic powder. The only central entrance to the church was located on the west side. The northern annex had an entrance in the north-western corner, and the southern one – in the south-eastern corner. The church seems to have been built of rubble stone. The construction style, layout, and archaeological evidence from the site narrow down its chronology to the 5th and 6th centuries AD.

Keywords

EN

Byzantine; western Georgia; Avgia; early Christian church

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Światowit
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 59
• Pages: 177-188

Dates

published

2021-06-25

Contributors

author

Mamuladze, Shota

author

Kamadadze, Kakhaber

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Kakhidze, Emzar

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31338/0082-044x.swiatowit.59.12