Otar Lortkipanidze

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

Lortkipanidze was a member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences and founder of the Georgian Archaeological Institute. He dealt primarily with the peoples of ancient Colchis and their relationships with ancient Greece . His son is the paleoanthropologist Dawit Lortkipanidze .

Publications (selection)

  • The old Colchis and its relations to the Greek world from the 6th to the 4th century BC . Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz 1985, ISBN 3-87940-263-9
  • Archeology 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
  • Ancient Georgia (Colchis and Iberia) in Strabon's geography. New scholias. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1996
  • Phasis. The river and city in Colchis. Steiner, Stuttgart 2000
  • Iberia II (Georgia). In: Real Lexicon for Antiquity and Christianity . Volume 17: Iao - Indictio feriarum. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-7772-9611-2 , pp. 12-106 (with Heinzgerd Brakmann).

The far larger number of works published in Georgian and Russian are not taken into account.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carola Metzner-Nebelsick: Otar Lordkipanidse, Archeology in Georgia. From the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages. (Review; PDF; 1.5 MB) Prehistoric Journal, Volume 69, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1994, pp. 252–256
personal data
SURNAME Lortkipanidze, Otar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lordkipanidze, Otar; ლორთქიფანიძე, ოთარ (Georgian); Lort'k'ip'anije, Ot'ar (transliteration); Lordkipanidze, Otar Davidovič
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1930
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 2002