Tsnori

Znori (Georgian წნორი ) is a small town in the region of Kakheti in eastern Georgia. It is located in Alazani Basin to 360 meters above sea level, four kilometers east of the city Sighnaghi. Znori has according to the census of 2002 6066 inhabitants.

Kurgans

During archaeological excavations two grave mounds ( kurgans ) were discovered from the Trialeti culture near the place. A Kurgan has the extraordinary extent of three acres of floor space in an oval of 168 meters in length at a present level of about eleven meters. The deposit consists of soil, clay, sand and boulders. The outer edge once consisted of a 30 meter high rock fill, which should protect the hill from erosion. The grave chamber formed a three-meter sunken pit, whose area was 166 square meters. She was covered with two layers of logs and a layer of clay. Among them were on a two meters high, supported by vertical wooden posts platform in large numbers ceramics, gold objects, arrowheads from bone, flint and obsidian, as well as knives and other articles of daily use made ​​of bronze. The additions in the grave chamber had been robbed in antiquity, so the skeleton of the main character could not be clearly identified. It could be established that the deceased had been brought in and buried in a wooden wagon. The other skeletons could have belonged to a human sacrifice ritual. This took place in the central, serving as a worship space to the probably a deal led around.

The remains of a smaller kurgans raise seven kilometers north-west still 2.5 meters above the surrounding area. Its diameter is 80 × 90 meters. He had been thrown to the ground and protected at the edge of a ten-meter- thick stone layer. The grave chamber in the middle of measure 10 x 10 meters at 2.5 meters depth. She was also covered with a structure of wooden beams and a clay pack. The ceiling beams rested, judging by the holes in the ground after, nine symmetrically arranged post. The earthen floor covered straw mats. Here were buried on the right side of a woman and a man in a crouched position. Only the male skeleton was found abundant gold and silver jewelry. This grave space also contained a wooden cart on which more than 40 clay pots were placed. The most important find is the 5.2 inch large sculpture of a lion made ​​of cast gold.

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