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Rat'i Surameli, Duke of Javakheti and Kartli, wearing a sharbush and a front-opening qaba with tiraz, slightly before 1186, Vardzia, southern Georgia, Inv. No. 5246-262. [ 1 ] Vardzia ( Georgian : ვარძია [vaɾdzia] ) is a cave monastery site in southern Georgia , excavated from the slopes of the Erusheti Mountain on the left bank of ...
Vanis Kvabebi (Georgian: ვანის ქვაბები; English: Vani's Caves) is a cave monastery in Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia near Aspindza town and the more famous cave city of Vardzia. The complex dates from 8th century and consists of a defensive wall built in 1204 and a maze of tunnels running on several levels in the ...
Vardzia Cave Monastery (). A cave monastery is a monastery built in caves, with possible outside facilities.The 3rd-century monk St. Anthony the Great, known as the founder of monasticism, lived in a cave.
The Zeda Vardzia church is constructed on an artificially flattened rocky surface in the upper Zeda Vardzia ravine. It is a two-nave design, with an open three-arch stoa attached to the south. The western extension is a later addition. The edifice is built of evenly hewn rectangular andesite tuff blocks.
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The earliest surviving portrait of Tamar from the church of the Dormition at Vardzia, c. 1184–1186. For six years, Tamar was a co-ruler with her father upon whose death, in 1184, Tamar continued as the sole monarch and was crowned a second time at the Gelati cathedral near Kutaisi , western Georgia.