A state grant funded by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia for the academic study of Georgian material and spiritual heritage located in Georgia and abroad. Project No: HE-18-339, 2018–2021
Project’s Principal Investigator: Ekaterine Kvachatadze
Project Consultant: Eldar Nadiradze, Doctor of Historical Sciences
Monograph Editor: Samson Lezhava, Doctor of Art History
The project entails the survey and study of memorial monuments preserved in Georgia from the Middle Ages up to the 1930s.
Within the scope of the project, more than 2,000 memorial monuments (including tombstones, memorial sculptures, obelisks, architectural structures, and sheep and horse statues) were located across most regions of Georgia. The fieldwork involved recording GPS coordinates, cataloging, measuring, detailed photographic documentation, classification, typological categorization, and analysis. Based on this material, an annotated inventory of the monuments was compiled.
The project also provides for the publication of a heavily illustrated, bilingual (Georgian and English) monographic study on Georgian memorial monuments.
To date, project participants have published two articles in scientific journals and presented two papers at international academic conferences within the framework of this project.
The Funerary Monuments of Georgia from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries
A state grant funded by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia for the academic study of Georgian material and spiritual heritage located in Georgia and abroad. Project No: HE-18-339, 2018–2021
The project entails the survey and study of memorial monuments preserved in Georgia from the Middle Ages up to the 1930s.
Within the scope of the project, more than 2,000 memorial monuments (including tombstones, memorial sculptures, obelisks, architectural structures, and sheep and horse statues) were located across most regions of Georgia. The fieldwork involved recording GPS coordinates, cataloging, measuring, detailed photographic documentation, classification, typological categorization, and analysis. Based on this material, an annotated inventory of the monuments was compiled.
The project also provides for the publication of a heavily illustrated, bilingual (Georgian and English) monographic study on Georgian memorial monuments.
To date, project participants have published two articles in scientific journals and presented two papers at international academic conferences within the framework of this project.