To the question of dating the reliefs of the White Temple in the village of Taglan (Abkhazia)
Abstract
To the question of dating the reliefs of the White Temple in the village of Taglan (Abkhazia)
Incoming article date: 30.06.2021The article is devoted to the stylistic and iconographic analysis of the relief decor of the White Church in the village of Taglan (Abkhazia) in the context of the medieval sculpture of Abkhazia, the identification of analogues of the studied reliefs in the sculpture of Georgia, Armenia, Alania, Byzantium and their dating. The scientific novelty of the article is due to the fact that a detailed study of the sculptural decoration of the White Temple with. Taglan is being undertaken for the first time, comparison with the identified analogues allows presumably dating the reliefs of the XI-XII centuries.
Keywords: medieval architecture and sculpture of Abkhazia, reliefs of the temple