Samshvilde Sioni inscription


The Samshvilde Sioni inscription is the Georgian language inscription written in the Georgian Asomtavruli script on the Sioni Church in Samshvilde, a ruined cathedral located in the Tetritsqaro Municipality, Kvemo Kartli, Georgia. Originally the inscription was 35 metres long but only 10 metres of inscription survived. The inscription mentions Georgian eristavis Varaz-Bakur and Iovane and two Byzantine Emperors, Constantine V and Leo IV the Khazar.

Inscription

Several scholars differently dated the inscription because of its damage. Sargis Kakabadze dates it to 778 AD, Giorgi Chubinashvili - 8th century, Ekvtime Takaishvili - 958 AD, where Marie-Félicité Brosset thought the inscription was dated to 1313 AD.