Chronicle of Georgia: Carved Scroll Above a Text Pillar

Carved Scroll Above a Text Pillar. The memorial’s name echoes Kartlis Tskhovreba, “The Life of Kartli” — the medieval collection of Georgian chronicles that recorded the country’s story for centuries. Lines of carved text cover this part of the pillar, like a page from a book in stone. David the Builder founded Gelati Monastery in 1106 with an academy that its contemporaries called “a second Jerusalem and a new Athens”.