This article offers a concise analysis of research concerning the comprehensive collection of silver vessels from Georgia's Late Antique period within a socio-political framework. This silverware silverwareassemblage holds particular significance because, unlike items housed in various museums worldwide, the majority originate from archaeologically excavated sites. Through artistic-stylistic analysis, archaeological context, and comparative methods, the study delineates the chronological framework, geographical distribution, social and cultural importance, purpose, and significance of the silverware artifacts in Late Antiquity Iberia and Colchis. The substantial quantity of silver vessels discovered in rich burials reflects the lifestyle and burial customs of the ruling elite. Before their placement in tombs, these objects likely served practical or ceremonial functions. Following the owner's death, they were deposited in burial chambers with specific ritual roles. Beyond their practical and ceremonial applications, silver vessels likely also played a significant role within the political domain. In addition to local production, the extensive collection of Roman and Sasanian silverware silverwareitems found throughout Georgian territory—some adorned with royal portraits and inscriptions—underscores the close trade, diplomatic, and economic relations maintained with these empires.

The presented work, based on new archival documents and scholarship, analyzes the formation in 1872 of the spiritual administrations of Shiites and Sunnis of Transcaucasia in the center of the Caucasus viceroyalty – Tbilisi (Tiflis)– and their existence until 1917. The work examines the legal successor of these administrations – The Spiritual Administration of Muslims (Shiites and Sunnis) of Transcaucasia (Mashikhat) – a topic that is completely unexamined in Georgian historiography.

Arnold Ziserman was a 19th-century Russian official who served in the Caucasus for twenty-five years and published numerous interesting articles in periodicals of that era. The first folklore texts he published in their original form were the legends of the founding of the Gudani and Lashari Cross, as well as of the village of Gudani. This article discusses the peculiarities of these texts.

The Way to Rainy Mountain, by the Native American writer Scott Momaday, explores the core of identity for his native Kiowa tribe. In this work, cultural identity, memory, and ancestral heritage are deeply connected. Momaday blends myths, legends, and family stories, illustrating how storytelling helps preserve and renew a tribe’s collective memory. Oral tradition plays a vital role in Native American studies. The article seeks to show the importance of Kiowa folk storytelling. Native American oral traditions enrich academic discussions and bring us closer to Kiowa cultural roots.

The article examines Sylvia Plath's famous poem "Daddy," offering researchers and readers numerous possibilities for interpretation. Besides the biographical aspect, the poem is fascinating from an artistic perspective. The article analyzes the creative and aesthetic features of the poetic text and also demonstrates the influence of Anne Sexton's confessional poem, "My Friend, My Friend," on it.

Sylvia Plath is an outstanding American poet of the 20th century, whose work is associated with confessional poetry. Sylvia Plath's poetry generally describes and conveys details of the poet's life. She does not avoid speaking about personal relationships (even with family members) or events.

In Karlo Kacharava's poetry, the artistic image of bread embodies social, religious, and cultural meanings and serves as a subject of philosophical reflection for understanding universal human themes and the characteristics of the era.

Through bread image-symbols, the author highlights the most significant problems of the era, creating highly artistic and original poetic images.

John Fowles' The Collector is a complex and intriguing novel that explores the clash of opposing concepts such as life and death, art and pornography, love and selfish, cruel desires. The desires and traits of the main characters effectively embody the ideology of the era, the values of which are often mere copies of genuine principles. William Shakespeare and his play The Tempest hold a significant place in the novel, with their values reinterpreted in Fowles' postmodernist context. The article uses the comparative method to establish connections between the two works.

This article aims to highlight the parallels between Eugene O'Neill's play Desire Under the Elms and Euripides’ Medea. It specifically explores how ancient Greek tragedy has been adapted for the American stage today. The article examines the similarities in their plots and characters, as well as how certain aspects of Greek tragedy have been altered within the context of twentieth-century American society.

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the political persuasive potential of Soviet caricature based on Georgian material. It aims to show how caricature becomes a powerful tool for propaganda in controlling and shaping public opinion and positions, for demonstrating one's own invincibility and the opponent's weakness, or generally for creating an enemy image in people's consciousness.

This article examines several cases of irony, laughter, and humor in Georgian hagiographical monuments, specifically in: “The Martyrdom of Shushanik”, “The Martyrdom of Eustathius of Mtskheta”, “The Life of John and Euthymius”, “The Life of George of Mt. Athos", and the work "The Miracles of Saint George”. The article demonstrates the purpose for which hagiographers use laughter and other elements of comedy. The viewpoint is expressed that the presence of such elements in the image of a saint gives Georgian hagiography a certain specificity.

The article examines the relationship between word formation and grammatical gender in Tsova-Tush. It analyses roots whose meaning changes through the attachment of different gender markers, and distinguishes between fossilized gender markers that once served a syntactic function and those that may exhibit derivational properties.

The article examines the potential for annotating and constructing syntactic trees for several standard sentences from domain-specific texts, specifically German and Georgian banking contracts. Syntax trees are a fundamental element of natural language processing systems.

This article examines the issue of vowel length in literary Azerbaijani and in the western dialect of the Azerbaijani language, specifically the Kazakh dialect. The phonetic processes that determine vowel phonetic variations in both literary Azerbaijani and dialectal forms are discussed. The analysis is based on empirical material obtained by the author through fieldwork.

The article covers all the main historical sources that offer information about the ancient deity Ainina [/Anian]. The names mentioned are related to one part of the complex name of the Sumerian mother goddess [Sum. “Nin” –> “mother”, “lady”], which likely reflects the religious connection or unity of Georgian culture with ancient intermediary cultures. Based on historical sources, the article also presents the viewpoint regarding the shared origin of the names of the deity Ainina and the toponym Ananuri.

This article examines the distribution of stop phonemes in the Abkhaz language through statistical analysis. The distribution of phonemes is investigated across word-initial (anlaut), word-medial (inlaut), and word-final (auslaut) positions. A comparative analysis is provided, and the results are presented in a table for clarity. The study is based on the National Corpus of the Abkhaz Language, which represents a novel approach to investigating Abkhaz phonetics and phonology. It aims to thoroughly develop the topic through corpus research methods, contributing to further comparative and typological studies in this area.