Image: St George spearing Diocletian (11th c., Georgia)
Description: St George of Labechina, Georgia, second decade of the 11th century. Transcaucasia, nationalism and social change: essays in the history of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia (1996), p. 19: "the nearly contemporary (to the 11th c. Nikortsminda icon) Labechina icon among others, directly reproduces that of the representation of Ahura-Mazda trampling over the demonic Ahreman" "An interesting attempt at blending banded and riveted lamellar armour is shown on the Labechina icon of equestrian St George, [fig. 14], dating from the second decade of the 11th century. Here on a banded klibanion (as well as on kremasmata) we see plates with (upper - lower) rivets of an earlier type, which later were completely superseded by plates with riveting in their upper part." Mamuka Tsurtsumia, The Evolution of Splint Armour in Georgia and Byzantium, Lamellar and Scale in the 10th-12th Centuries [1]
Title: St George spearing Diocletian (11th c., Georgia)
Credit: Book «The Art Museum of Georgia», Tbilisi, 1970
Author: Unknown authorUnknown author
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