According to the materials under consideration, the holiday "lichenishi" is dedicated to the divinities of fruitfulness and in this case, as is so frequent in the Caucasus, a Christian saint had adopted the functions of a divinity from an earlier, pagan period.

Die Stele von Suchumi zählt zu den in Georgien entdeckten hochinteressanten Werken der Steinmetzkunst.1 Die Steinsäule mit dem Basrelief wurde bei unterseeischen Küstenbefestigungsarbeiten im Meer auf dem Grund der Bucht von Suchumi an der Mündung des Besleti gefunden. Die Bucht von Suchumi ist jener Ort, an dem die Lage eines Teils der schon im Werk des Pseudo-Skylax von Kariand im 4. Jh. v. Chr. erwähnten Stadt Dioskurias [Periplus..., 81] vermutet wird.

The Black Sea shore of Georgia was included into the Byzantian world at the end of the 4th century AD. Byzantines troops were dislocated in some of its centers (Pitiunt, Sebastopolis), and in Apsar,Petra and Fasis in the 6th century AD. City life was very active in these centres. However, major centers remained to be mainly fortifications on the frontier line. Only Fasis managed to remain as a significant city centre in the 6th century AD.

During the field work in Imereti, our attention is drawn to the disease, which is called "uzhmuri". This disease is known in almost every region of Georgia and has caused special interest in its specific nature and causes the researchers. First of all, we present the material we have collected according to the thematic principle, according to the causes and the course of the disease, then we will try to draw parallels with similar materials obtained in other regions of Georgia.