Chronicle of Georgia: Figure Holding an Inscribed Tablet

Figure Holding an Inscribed Tablet. Georgian monks kept learning alive in monasteries far from home — at Iviron on Mount Athos, in Jerusalem and on Mount Sinai. A relief of books, scrolls and the people who wrote them, seen up close on a pillar. King Erekle II, the “Little Kakhetian”, led the eastern Georgian kingdom through the 18th century and fought until old age.