Likhne, Church of Dormition
Location: | Likhne (Zupu), Gudauta Municipality |
Place: | Georgia, Abkhazia |
Dedication: | Dormition of the Virgin |
Category: | Built |
Type: | Domed Church, Croix Inscrite/Cross-in-square |
Date/Period: | Late 10th century |
Renovation/Reconstruction: | |
Layers of the Murals: | Two layers |
Walls of the gallery on the second floor of the narthex of the church have preserved fourteen inscriptions outlined in many colors and written in asomtavruli, transitional nuskhuri (minuscule) and modern lay alphabets. Among them special interest is drawn by an account about the comet that appeared between the Palm Sunday and the Resurrection in 1066; the rest of the inscriptions are commemorative; all date to the eleventh century.