Jvari Monastery

Name of structure: Jvari Monastery
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Type of structure: monastery
Country or main area: Eastern Georgia
Region within country or main area: Kartli Province
City or area within region: nr. Mtskheta
Date of structure: 586-604
Century of structure 1: 6 AD
Century of structure 2: 7 AD
Specific place of mosaic:

traces in the apse

Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: evidence of a cross in a mandorla
a few loose tesserae
Date of mosaic: Second half of sixth century AD?
Century of mosaic 1: 6 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
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Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)?
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Record Incomplete

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