Colchis: Did you mean...?

Trapezus (Greek: Τραπεζοῦς) or Trebizond was a Greek city on the southern shore of the Black Sea, modern Trabzon. According to the Christian author Eusebius, writing more than a millennium after the event, Trapezus was founded in 756...

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Map showing the ancient states in the western Caucasus (modern-day Georgia) from c. 600 BCE to 150 BCE.

This unique specimen of Colchian goldsmithery is one of the earliest examples of making patterns in sheet gold by cutting out portions of metal (opus interrasile). This artifact was found at the Vani archaeological...


Silver. Weight: sample of the Hague Museum – 10,40 gr., sample of the British Museum – 12,72 gr., sample of the Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia – 13 gr. The weights range from 10,40 to 13 gr. 

d≈22 mm. 
Obverse: Exceptionally...

Silver. The weights range from 1,7 to 2,6 gr. 

d=11/12-12/13 mm.

 Obverse: Lion’s head to the right/left, showing teeth.

 Reverse: Lioness’ protome to the right in quadratum incusum. Mint: Phasis. Nominal: Attic...