Kvashilava, Gia, 2010. On Reading Pictorial Signs of the Phaistos Disk and Related Scripts (2). Rosette (in Georgian and English)
This study concerns the graphic character, symbolic meanings, typological parallels, commentaries and reading of the Phaistos Disk pictorial sign PHD38.
This study concerns the graphic character, symbolic meanings, typological parallels, commentaries and reading of the Phaistos Disk pictorial sign PHD38.
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Colchian-<strong>Georgian</strong> Oda-houses widely spread <strong>in</strong> Meskheti-Javakheti,<br />
Trialeti, West Georgia <strong>and</strong> Kartli, also <strong>of</strong> Darbazi-houses <strong>of</strong><br />
Kartli, Kakheti, Samtskhe-Javakheti <strong>and</strong> Trialeti are decorated with<br />
<strong>the</strong> ornaments <strong>of</strong> an eight-petalled rosette ; a circle with star ;<br />
an eight-rayed star with eight revolv<strong>in</strong>g rays ; a circle with eight<br />
revolv<strong>in</strong>g rays ; a circle with double cross <strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r astral<br />
symbols (see: Chub<strong>in</strong>ashvili 1936, I; Bardavelidze, Chitaia 1939;<br />
Bardavelidze 1957; Chitaia 1967; 2000, 176, Fig. 25; 209; 215;<br />
Javakhishvili 1968; Japaridze, Javakhishvili 1971; Sumbadze 1984;<br />
Lezhava, Kiladze, Giorgobiani 2007, 3, 7, 8, 20; 27, 30, 31, 33, 37,<br />
55-57, 63, 81, 101, 110, 20-121, 134, 148-149).<br />
The correspond<strong>in</strong>g material is presented below:<br />
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