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THE COMPLEX ANALYSIS OF ANAKOPIA FORTRESS GATES CENTRE ARCHITECTURE THE CAPITAL OF THE EARLY MEDIEVAL ABKHAZIAN KINGDOM
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The article describes the peculiarities of architecture of the objects of the second line of defense of Anacopia (the capital of the early-medieval kingdom of Abkhazia) a unique monument of early-medieval architecture of VI-XI c.: the tower at the gates, the adjacent gate and walls. We revealed regional historic processes, shew the results of archaeological researches, digital examination, analysis of the building stratigraphy of the mortars, research applying methods of natural sciences, basing on which we made the dating and the attribution of the monument. We clarified the dating of the periods of building from VI c. to X c. Basing on the results of digital examination we conclusively established the peculiarities of the architecture of the monument in different periods, determined the processes of cultural influence and borrowings. We conducted a detailed analysis of the analogue (in what concerns architecture, décor and building technique) in the territory of Armenia, Greece and Turkey, which lets us reveal the cultural identity of the object in processes of historic transformations. We determined regional peculiarities of the building technique of the byzantine period.
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