Abstract
The article discusses an altar made of limestone which was found accidentally in the village of Tkotsi on the territory of Khashuri Municipality. The artifact is little in size and belongs to the variety of portable altars. Its height is 11.5 cm and is cylindrical in plan. The sanctuary of Tkotsi consists of three parts – a base, a pillar and a capital. Little sized clay altars were found in small quantities in Hellenistic and Roman times on the territory of Georgia. From that period they were widely spread both in the western and eastern peripheries of the ancient world, especially in the western part of the Black Sea coast. Movable small altars were mainly in family chapels and served the owners of the altars. The altar of Tkotsi, which should be dated back to the late Roman period, should have had such function.
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