Open AccessThe basic signs of the byzantine architectural culture in the medieval serf temples in Abkhazia and Georgia
Author(s) -
Eugenia Kishkinova
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/698/3/033036
Subject(s) - byzantine architecture , constructive , context (archaeology) , identification (biology) , novelty , architecture , literal and figurative language , history , period (music) , ancient history , archaeology , classics , art , linguistics , aesthetics , computer science , philosophy , process (computing) , botany , theology , biology , operating system
Two serf temples are considered in the article – in a village Dranda (Abkhazia) and in the village Ninotsminda near Sagarejo (Georgia).Within the main architecturural trends of the early Byzantine period, these temples’ planning, compositional and constructive solutions are analyzed, their sources and the prototypes are specified in the context of the Byzantine influence on the Transcaucasian regional schools architecture. The dating of the temple in Dranda is substantiated by VI century. The investigated monuments are presented in the synchronic and diachronic series of analogs in connection with the figurative and symbolic architectural forms component. The scientific novelty of this study is due to the western compartments architectural forms alleged prototypes identification of the temple in Dranda, which have Syrian origins, the Ninotsmindan planning and constructive solution supposed Byzantine prototypes identification, considered in the octagons type temples context, making the fortresses dating hypothesis in connection with the temples dating in them.