Otar Lordkipanidze

Otar Lortkipanidse (Georgian ოთარ ლორთქიფანიძე, common foreign-language form of the name: Otar Lordkipanidze, transliteration also: Ot'ar Lort'k'ip'anije; born October 30, 1930; † 19 May 2002) was a Georgian archaeologist.

Lortkipanidse was a member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences and founder of the Georgian Archaeological Institute. His son is the paleoanthropologist Dawit Lortkipanidse.

Works (selection)

  • Monuments of Greco- roman Culture on the Territory of ancient Georgia. In: Archaeologia XVII, 1966
  • Colchis in the Early Antique Period. In: Archaeologia XIX, 1968
  • Research on the early cultures in the Georgian SSR. In: Antiquity, 24, No. 1, 1978
  • Archaeology in Georgia. From the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages. ( Sources and research on prehistoric and Roman provincial archeology) VCH, Acta humaniora, Weinheim, 1991, ISBN 3-527-17531-8
  • The ancient Colchis and its relations with the Greek world from the 6th to the 4th century BC. University Press Konstanz, Konstanz 1985, ISBN 3-87940-263-9
  • The old Georgia ( Colchis and Iberia ) in Strabo's Geography: new scholia. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1996
  • Phasis: the river and city in Colchis. Steiner, Stuttgart 2000

It does not include the much larger number of in Georgian and Russian works published.

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