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Standard bearing
the figures of lions
(Trialeti. 2nd millennium BC)
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Standard (Bolnisi Sioni Cathedral. 5th
century)
Royal standard of
King George III
Standard (similar
to Judaic aethode)
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Silver top ornament
of the Royal Standard of Queen Rusudan (daughter
of Queen Tamar “the Great”). 12th century.
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Modern
reconstruction of the top ornament of the Royal Standard of Queen Rusudan
The battle flag of
Svaneti also known as “the lion flag” (Being filled by the air it took the
shape of a lion)
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Silver top
ornament of “the Lion Flag” of Svanetia.
12th
century.
The battle flag
of Mtiuleti (with the bell at the end)
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Flag bearing the
image of St.George (light pink)
Flag bearing the
image of St. Michael the Archangel
(pink
with red lining)
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Royal flag (light
green) bearing the Coat of Arms of the Bagration
House (18th century)
FLAGS
OF GEORGIAN STATES AND PROVINCES
(18th century)
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Flag of Kartli (red, brown lining).
Image: star with
a halo over the symbols of military and civil authorities - the lion and
ox, severed with a sword and sceptre.
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Flag of Kakheti (pink, red lining).
Image: winged
gelding - Pegasus, with a flag under a crown, the flagpole ends with a
cross. The horse is an ancient religious symbol – an element of the solar
cycle.
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Flag of Imereti (greenish-blue, pale yellow lining).
Image: deer with
a cross between the antlers under a crown. Beneath the crown, a crescent,
perhaps, a sign of lunar cult.
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Flag of Guria (dark pink, yellow lining).
Image: deer under
the shining star. Deer symbolizes the Divine goodness. It came from pagan
symbolism to the Christian one)
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Flag of Odishi-Megrelia (light brown, dark brown lining).
Image: boar with
a flag bearing abird and four stars in the
corners. Boar is a symbol of fertility, the bird stands for a Heavenly
messenger, the stars are the symbols of the Sun.
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Flag of Abkhazia –
Abkhazeti (pale green, red lining).
Image: goat under the symbol of three crescents,
whose meaning is unknown. Goat, apparently, is a totem.
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Flag of Samtskhe Saatabago (green,
blue lining).
Image: recumbent
bull with the flag bearing the sword and two black stars.
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Flag of Svaneti (blue, red lining).
Image: bear with
the mountains at the background. Bear originates from the ancient religious
traditions of the Svan people, as a symbol of
mountaineers.
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Flag of Ovseti – Ossetia (pink, pink lining).
Image: panther
with the mountains at the background.
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Flag of Armenia
under Georgian suzerainty
(pale green, pink lining).
Image: panther
holding a spear under the crown and the sun
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Flag of Shirvan under Georgian suzerainty
(yellow, blue lining).
Image: wild goat with
a swallow-tailed flag bearing a rosette that symbolizes the sun. Rosette
shape resembles diagonal crosses of the Bronze Age.
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Flag of Ran under
Georgian suzerainty
(pale green, brown lining).
Image: spider,
sitting in a blue square with a red border. Spider is perceived as a symbol
of hard work and industriousness.
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OTHER
STANDARDS AND COLOURS (INCL. THE LATER ONES)
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Silver top
ornament of the Princely standard of Constantine Mukhran-Batoni
(18th century)
Image: St. George fighting the dragon in the middle
of the cross. Both sides of the ornament bear inscriptions.
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Sample forms of
Georgian standards of the 18th century
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Royal standard of
King Solomon I of Imereti
(reconstruction based
on the sketches of Jean Mourier)
The standard mysteriously
disappeared in 1883. Before that it was kept in Khoni
monastery.
Image: St. George
with a sword and shield. The top ornament had a form of a cross.
Unfortunately, Mourier did not specify the colors
of the standard.
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Regimental colours
of Georgian Mounted Militia (1854).
Later it became a
personal flag of Prince Ivan Amilakhvari.
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