Pichvnari III: The Hellenistic World and Colchis : Types of Burials and Burial Customs in South-Western Georgia in the Hellenistic Period

The British-Georgian Pichvnari Expedition has been active since 1998, excavating the cemeteries and settlement of the Greco-Colchian emporion at Pichvnari.The results of the activities of the first five years were published in Pichvnari I (2004), and results from some of the activities during the Soviet period were published in Pichvnari II (2007). The present volume is concerned with some of the work done in the Hellenistic period cemetery at Pichvnari between 1965 and 2004, as well as at Zemopartskhma and other sites of the Supsa-Natanebi basin, where pithos burials of the Hellenistic period were discovered in the 1950s.