Another Lost Antiquity from Mount Saint George Monastery – The Icon of Saint George hammered under the Ktetorship of Kutsna Mkheidze

Abstract

This paper scrutinizes to one of the lost antiquities belonging to Mount Saint George Monastery – the icon of Saint George seen in 1925/6 in the village of Tsknori and described by G. Bochoridze. The inscription mentioned some Kutsna Mkheidze. It does not bear a date and its ktetor has not been identified yet. By comparison with other icons created under the ktetorship of the Mkheidzes during the first half of the 16th century - the icons of Saint Mary from Gelati Sokhastery and of Saint George from the village of Gurna - Kutsna was a son of upper Imereti seigniors - Piran Mkheidze and Elene Abashidze. In the mid-16th century, or in the second half, Kutsna Mkheidze had a new icon embossed expressly for Mount Saint George Monastery