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Title: Kveda Bzvani A046 Open Access Deposited

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  • This is one of the 96 archaeological points of interest recorded by the Vani Archaeological Survey between 2009 and 2011. For a general description of the methods of the survey, See Vani Archaeological Survey Goals and Methods  https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/data/concern/data_sets/8p58pd227?locale=en

  • Related Sites: A047, A048, A049

  • The survey team investigated the area around Kveda Bzvani on 24 June 2009 and returned in 2010 to carry out intensive survey on the western slope of the northwestern hill, in a cornfield dense with surface pottery (A047). We identified four points of interest.
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  • The modern settlement of Kveda Bzvani is situated east of Vani within the foothills that line the Phasis River plain, approximately 2 km south of the main east-west road on the south edge of the Phasis River plain. The village is located in the Vani administrative district. We investigated a pair of hills oriented northwest southeast on the outskirts of the village. The boundary between Kveda (Lower) Bzvani and Zeda (Upper) Bzvani actually runs between these hills, but they are considered here as a unit. Local toponyms for this area are Natsikhvari and Chitoula (“Place of Birds”). A corn field on the western slope of the northwestern hill is dense with surface pottery (A047); on the top of the hill are the mortared masonry remains of what appears to have been a fortified complex on a series of terraces (A048); on the eastern slope is a rock-cut chamber that may have been used as a chapel (A049). The southeastern hill is now occupied by a church and modern cemetery, but ancient pottery is visible in many places on the top and sides of the hill (A050).
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  • ratte@umich.edu
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  • A brief survey of the site was undertaken by S. Kharabadze in 2008. No further archaeological work has been conducted.
  • Sulkhan Kharabadze. “Vanis Qveq’nis” Arqeologiuri Ruk’a (dzv.ts. VIII – akh.ts. III ss.). (Archaeological Map of the Vani Land, 8th Century BC – 3rd Century AD). Tsardgenilia Doqt’oris Ak’ademiuri Khariskhis Mosap’oveblad. Saqartvelos T’eqnik’uri Universit’et’i. Tbilisi, 0175, Saqartvelo. Seqt’egberi, 2008.
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  • 05/17/2023
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  • 05/17/2023
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  • https://doi.org/10.7302/rynt-4p54
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To Cite this Work:
Vani Archaeological Survey. (2023). Kveda Bzvani A046 [Data set], University of Michigan - Deep Blue Data. https://doi.org/10.7302/rynt-4p54

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