Crowned Bust Above the Sea. In 1008 Bagrat III became the first king of a united Georgian kingdom — the moment Kartli, Abkhazia and other lands were brought under one crown. A crowned figure on one of the pillars, seen face to face from the height of the relief. “A guest is a gift from God,” says a Georgian proverb — hospitality, the supra feast and its toastmaster, the tamada, are part of the same chronicle.
