Life of the “King” of Kings Tamar (“Kartlis Tskhovreba”, text identified based on all key manuscripts by S. Kaukhchishvili, v. II, 1959)

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Author	Basili Ezosmodzgvari
Epoch	XIII c.
Work	Life of the “King” of Kings Tamar (“Kartlis Tskhovreba”, text identified based on all key manuscripts by S. Kaukhchishvili, v. II, 1959)
Type	Prose
Quote	“Neither he [David Soslan, E.K.] was idled nor let he his serfs be idled” as a certain chronicler says about Alexander”. (pg. 130)
Term	Alexander chronicler

Nike. Vani. II-I BC, Bronze, 22 x19 cm. The Georgian National Museum.

Comment	T. Khaukhchishvili: “It is possible that the same Aristobulus is implied here (the one, who is mentioned by David’s historian), or else the George Hamartolos “Chronicles”. What is more important, is the Greek form of the name “Alexandros”. If Basili, the Court Confessor, did not have a Greek original of the history, the translated text which he consulted must have contained the so called “Greekisms” (despite the fact that at that time the name Alexander was known as such in Georgia)” (Antique World in the Historiography of Rustaveli Epoch. Historians of Tamar, Macne, the series of history, archeology, ethnography and history of art, Tbilisi, 1974, p. 112)

Comment

T. Khaukhchishvili: “It is possible that the same Aristobulus is implied here (the one, who is mentioned by David’s historian), or else the George Hamartolos “Chronicles”. What is more important, is the Greek form of the name “Alexandros”. If Basili, the Court Confessor, did not have a Greek original of the history, the translated text which he consulted must have contained the so called “Greekisms” (despite the fact that at that time the name Alexander was known as such in Georgia)” (Antique World in the Historiography of Rustaveli Epoch. Historians of Tamar, Macne, the series of history, archeology, ethnography and history of art, Tbilisi, 1974, p. 112)

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