List of Georgian rulers until Mirian

Title(s):
  • List of Georgian rulers until Mirian
  • Royal list 1
Period covered:
4th c. B.C.-4th c. (until conversion of king Mirian)
Language:
Georgian
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • List (rulers)
Remarks:
This royal list is transmitted exclusively in the ecclesiastical corpus Mok‛ts‛evay k‛art‛lisay. A similar and extended (but not identical) account of the period appears in The life of the kings.
Edition - Translation:
  • I. Abuladze (1963) (ed.) Dzveli k‛art‛uli agiograp‛iuli literaturis dzeglebi. Volume One. Tbilisi: 82-83.
  • C. Lerner (2004) The wellspring of Georgian historiography: The early medieval historical chronicle The conversion of K’art’li and the Life of St. Nino. London: 140.
  • S.H. Rapp (2003) Studies in medieval Georgian historiography: Early texts and Eurasian contexts (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 610: Subsidia, 113). Leuven: 174-185, 259-261.
  • E. Giunashvili, B. Gigineishvili (1979) (ed.) Shatberdis krebuli X saukunisa: Dzveli k‛art‛uli mtserlobis dzeglebi. Volume One. Tbilisi: 320-321.
Fragments:
Bibliography:
  • G.A. Melik‘ishvili (1959) K istorii drevnei Gruzii. Tbilisi.
  • S.H. Rapp (1999) 'The pre-Christian cycle of the Georgian Shatberdi Codex: A translation of the initial texts of the Corpus Mok‛c‛evay k‛art‛lisay (The conversion of K‛art‛li)'. Le muséon 112.1-2: 79-128.
  • C. Toumanoff (1963) Studies in Christian Caucasian history. Washington, D.C.: 23-24.