Chronicle of Georgia: Relief of a Walled City with Churches

Relief of a Walled City with Churches. Above Mtskheta the 6th-century Jvari Monastery marks the place where Saint Nino’s cross is said to have stood — a masterpiece copied across the Caucasus. A relief with churches and buildings, carved into the bronze of a pillar. King David IV, called the Builder, reigned from 1089 to 1125, reunited the country and turned Georgia into the strongest power of the Caucasus.