Martyrdom of Shushanik

Tsamebay tsmidisa Shushanikisi dedoplisay

Written between 476 and 483, probably in Tsurtavi (now Kvemo Kartli, Georgia). The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

How the Armenian princess Shushanik was held and tortured to death by her husband for keeping her faith.

Acts · first written in Georgian

The corpus file is the longer Armenian version, a later reworking of unknown date, not the Georgian text of Jacob.

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable: D. M. Lang, Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints (1956), on the Passion of Shushanik: after her death (475) and before her husband Varsken was put to death (482-484), which the text does not know; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrdom_of_the_Holy_Queen_Shushanik : written between 476 and 483
Place written probable: D. M. Lang, Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints (1956), on the Passion of Shushanik: written by her priest at the court of Tsurtavi; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrdom_of_the_Holy_Queen_Shushanik names no place