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The Eredvi basilica is enclosed within the complex of a ruined fortress, which consists of a rampart—irregular rectangle in shape—and two towers to its northwest. The towers, one of which in ruins and the other rising three storeys, are dated to the 13th–14th century; the rampart was reconstructed in
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script, placed in the upper part of a round column on the southern wall. It is made in the name of the architect
Teodore Taplaisdze and dates laying the foundation of the church to 906. The text makes mention of contemporary lay and clerical dignitaries, such King
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is two-tiered and somewhat horseshoe-shaped. The apse itself is lower than the central chamber. The entrance to the church is from south, and additionally, from the west. The window and doors are decorated with carved stone headpieces and crosses.
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at Eredvi envelopes the church from all four sides, including the eastern façade, a feature unusual for the contemporaneous churches of this type, which usually had an ambulatory running on three sides. The main nave is divided by prominent
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of its ethnic
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The basilica, which measures 13 × 21 metres, is built of hewn stone and is roofed with tiles. It is a modified three-nave design, peculiar for the early medieval
Georgian architecture, and defined by the art historian
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as "three-church" basilicas. These are a series of churches, in which the nave is completely separated from the aisles with solid walls, in order to create what are almost three independent churches.
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over the middle nave is supported by arches. The arch of a semicircular
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