List of Georgian kings until Stephen II

Title(s):
  • List of Georgian kings until Stephen II
  • Royal List 2
Period covered:
4th-first half of 7th c.
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. The work addresses the kings of the Christian Chosroid (Xosroiani) dynasty after its founder Mirian (r. 284-361), whose received history is transmitted in the ecclesiastical Conversion of K‛art‛li and Life of Nino. It ends with the passage of the Byzantine emperor Heraclius (r. 610-641) through eastern Georgia as he campaigned against Sasanian Iran.
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: 91-96.
  • 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: 146-150.
  • S.H. Rapp (2003) Studies in medieval Georgian historiography: Early texts and Eurasian contexts (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 610: Subsidia, 113). Leuven: 303-311.
  • B. Gigineishvili, E. Giunashvili (1979) (ed.) Shatberdis krebuli X saukunisa: Dzveli k‛art‛uli mtserlobis dzeglebi. Volume One. Tbilisi: 320-321.
Fragments:
Bibliography:
  • Z. Alek‛sidze (2001) Le nouveau manuscrit géorgien sinaïtique N Sin 50: Édition en fac-similé (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 586: Subsidia, 108). Leuven: 73-81.
  • S.H. Rapp (2014) The Sasanian world through Georgian eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian commonwealth in late antique Georgian literature. Farnham.
  • C. Toumanoff (1963) Studies in Christian Caucasian history. Washington, D.C.: 23-24.