Title(s):
- Life of St. Arch‛il
- წამება წმიდისა და დიდებულისა მოწამისა არჩილისი(Tsameba tsmidisa da didebulisa motsamisa arch‛ilisi, Passion of the holy and glorious martyr Arch‛il)
Period covered:
736-786
Language:
Georgian
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
- Biography (general)
Remarks:
Though it originally may have existed as an independent text, the Life of Arch‛il is exclusively preserved in the historiographical corpus K‛art‛lis ts‛khovreba (variants: K‛art‛lis c‛xovreba, Kartlis Tskhovreba). This mixture of hagiography and historiography is widely misattributed to archbishop Leonti Mroveli, the eleventh-century editor who might have been responsible for assembling the initial version of K‛art‛lis ts‛khovreba as we know it today. The work addresses the reign of Arch‛il (r. 736-786), Christian Chosroid prince of the eastern region of Kakhet‛i during the interregnum. Arch‛il was martyred by the Muslim Khuzayma ibn Khāzim ('Asim' and 'Chichnaum').
The work was maybe composed in the monasteries of Tao-Klarjet‛i in southwestern Georgia. There also exists an Armenian version.
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