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Description of the area:
Petra is a Byzantine fortress, the well-preserved ruins of which are located in the territory of the village of Tsikhisdziri in the Kobuleti municipality. According to another point of view, Petra was located in the territory of modern Turkey, near the port of Hopa, which, however, contradicts the data of Procopius of Caesarea.
According to Procopius of Caesarea, the Petra fortress in Lazica, on the site of a previously existing "insignificant settlement" near the Pontus Euxinus, was founded by Emperor Justinian I. The necessity of founding a fortress here convinced the commander John Tzibus, a "man of unknown and low origin who rose to the rank of a general only because he was the most worthless of all people and the most capable in finding ways to illegally acquire money". Using this fortress, Tzibus robbed the property of the Laz people.
After a victorious end to another stage of the war with Persia, the Byzantines themselves destroyed the fortress here, "so that the barbarians, coming here again, could not commit any treachery".
During the excavations of 1961-1962, in the territory of the Petra acropolis, the remains of two early medieval buildings, a basilica and a bath, were found, forming a single architectural ensemble that surrounded a small triangular square on three sides. The remains of the bath partially exist among the walls that appeared at a later time. The bath, which has architecture typical of late antique baths, has preserved its portico.
In Petra, from the first half of the 6th century to the 10th century, there was an episcopal see.
Description of the cache:
In the hole of a small wall.