**TINS of TASTE MUSEUM** within the NationalBreadMuseum.org
GEORGIA
For most people in the United States, it's time to get out your globe and travel half way around the world! What an adventure you'll have in the country of Georgia - - the only country in the world to have the same name as one of the 50 U. S. states.
Here's a bit of my dream . . . First, my hope is to get the Tins of Taste Museum (ToTM) a home on the land so all people will have an opportunity to see this beautiful art-on-tin in real life.
Second, I've said before that my personal goal is not to have to have the ToTM have every decorative food tin in the world. But after having had a chance to be at Rio de Janeiro in 2023, and seeing the "steps of tiles from around the world," it would be a fantastic & precious geographical collection to have at least one decorative or significant, art-worthy, food tin from every country possible. The overwhelming thankfulness would be people gifting these tins (full or empty) from where they live, or their travels. (This would be similar to Barry's National Mustard Museum in Middleton, WI.) If you'd have a tin you'd gift, please send an email to breadmuseum@aol.com (w/"gift" in the subject line). Thanks. D. Kozak - Founder
This (empty😄) food tin (originally filled with chocolates) was a gift from family traveling! It's so precious because we believe it's a one-time (2023) Christmas holiday seasonal tin from halfway around the world. This is an interesting way for the world to learn a bit about the history of the country of Georgia!
After you're finished scrolling through this page, in order to become a bit more familiar
with the country of Georgia and this historic 12th century poem, enter
The Knight in the Panther's Skin
into a search engine & skim through a few articles & the "images" related to this.
THE KNIGHT IN THE PANTHER'S SKIN
The Knight in the Panther's Skin is the only poem of Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli (12th century) written in the epoch of Queen Tamar, called the "Golden Age" of Georgia.
The poem was created in the depths of Georgian Renaissance culture, born as a result of the rise of Georgian nationhood and merging of Western and Eastern cultural values.
The main characters of The Knight in the Panther's Skin are trained to high moral ideals. There are two parallel stories in the poem - Arabic and Indian, but both of them are related to each other in an expressive storytelling.
164 manuscripts of The Knight in the Panther's Skin, including fragments, have reached us. Most of them are kept in K. Kekelidze Georgian National Center of Manuscripts.
In 1712, the first publication of The Knight in the Panther's Skin was carried out by King Vakhtang VI. In the 19th, the poem has been published several times. One of the most distinguished publication is of 1888, made by G. Kartvelishvili and illustrated by outstanding Hungarian artist Mihaly Zichy.
(Note: copied exactly from the enclosure without correcting some grammatical American English errors.)
ANSWER to Mysterious🤔: center bottom between the woman (l) & man (r) are 2 hands holding a scroll -- but no person?!? Is it that the kneeling man has slits (for some reason?) in his long tan sleeves & the hands are his? It's strange because the boy to his right and the woman to his left each have slits in their outer garment which we would then call a "cape." But for the man to have long fabric sleeves & for his arms to not be in them is just "strange!" 😏
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