entity · site_srsc1_samtavro_necropolis
Samtavro necropolis
Also known as: Samtavro cemetery, Mtskheta Samtavro
A large, long-lived cemetery near Mtskheta with substantial Late Bronze and Early Iron Age burial sequences.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1700 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides site or sequence evidence
Urartian-Type Swords from the Samtavro Cemetery: Evidence of Military Contacts and Conflicts in the South Caucasus — Tamar Giorgadze (2025)
Locator: Relevant site report, synthesis, or gazetteer record - informs · provides site or sequence evidence
The Archaeology of the Caucasus: From Earliest Settlements to the Iron Age — Antonio Sagona (2017)
Locator: Relevant site report, synthesis, or gazetteer record
Research description
The mortuary sequence supports continuity and changing material networks, but later Urartian-type objects mostly postdate the primary interval.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Early iron evidence
Iron objects or production evidence occurs before widespread iron adoption.
Why does this record have this property?
The assignment does not imply widespread iron use throughout the full sequence. Isolated objects, smithing, smelting, and broad adoption remain distinct evidential stages.
- Urartian-Type Swords from the Samtavro Cemetery: Evidence of Military Contacts and Conflicts in the South Caucasus
supports assignment or caveat · Early iron objects, production, or adoption review - Innovation and Adoption of Iron in the Ancient Near East
supports assignment or caveat · Early iron objects, production, or adoption review
Multi-period sequence
The site preserves several distinct occupation or burial phases that must not be flattened into one event.
Why does this record have this property?
Occupation, cemetery use, production, and political association changed through time. Each historical claim must be tied to its own phase.
- Urartian-Type Swords from the Samtavro Cemetery: Evidence of Military Contacts and Conflicts in the South Caucasus
supports assignment · Stratigraphic or multi-period sequence
Evidence and sources
- supports · provides site or sequence evidence
Urartian-Type Swords from the Samtavro Cemetery: Evidence of Military Contacts and Conflicts in the South Caucasus — Tamar Giorgadze (2025)Source linked to entity record site_srsc1_samtavro_necropolis.
Locator: Relevant site report, synthesis, or gazetteer record - supports · provides site or sequence evidence
The Archaeology of the Caucasus: From Earliest Settlements to the Iron Age — Antonio Sagona (2017)Source linked to entity record site_srsc1_samtavro_necropolis.
Locator: Relevant site report, synthesis, or gazetteer record