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Title: Dikhashkho, Isriti Tsikhe A044 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: A043, A045, B005

  • The survey team visited the area around Dikhashkho on 24 June 2009 and 13 July 2010. We recorded four points of interest.
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  • The Mediaeval fortress or watchtower known as Isriti Tsikhe is located 2 km northeast of the village of Dikhashkho, just south of the main east-west road running south of the Phasis River. The fortress crowns the top of the first foothill south of the flat river plain, which rises 90 m above the plain. The tower is oblong in plan, oriented northeast by southwest. Its exterior dimensions are 9.1 m (on the northeast side) by 7.5 m (on the northwest side). Its interior length (from the southwest side to the northeast side) is 4.6 m. The walls of the tower are built of limestone slabs set in hard white mortar, facing a core of mortared rubble, including large numbers of cobblestones. Two cylindrical holes left by wooden tie beams are visible in the opposing northeast and southwest interior walls. The limestone facing is approximately 0.30 m deep; the total thickness of the walls of the tower is 1.4 m, but somewhat wider at the corners, which are square on the exterior but rounded on the interior. The southeast side appears to be pierced by a damaged gateway. One window, preserved approximately 2 m above ground level on the southeast side (east of the damaged gateway), is 0.50 m high by 0.30 m wide, and 1.7 m deep.
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  • ratte@umich.edu
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  • A brief survey was conducted at the site by S. Kharabadze in 2008.
  • Kharabadze, S. 2008. “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’emberi, 2008.
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  • 05/17/2023
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  • 05/17/2023
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  • https://doi.org/10.7302/2x1d-sb50
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To Cite this Work:
Vani Archaeological Survey. (2023). Dikhashkho, Isriti Tsikhe A044 [Data set], University of Michigan - Deep Blue Data. https://doi.org/10.7302/2x1d-sb50

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