L’Ibérie du Caucase à l’heure sassanide

• Autores: Nicolas Preud'homme
• Localización: Antiquité tardive: revue internationale d'histoire et d'archéologie, ISSN 1250-7334, Nº. 30, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Les Sassanides en conflit : géopolitique de l’empire perse tardo-antique), págs. 137-149
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • As a hinge territory culturally influenced by Sarmatians and Parthians, Caucasian Iberia entered the Sasanian orbit in the early 260s CE. Evidence of this influence can be seen in literary sources from the Romano-Byzantine world, Medieval Georgia and Armenia, in Sasanian epigraphy, also in Iberian toreutics, glyptics, numismatics, and sigillographic material. However, Iranian impregnation in social and cultural matters shall not be confused with complete political alignment: the Iberian elites remained divided towards the šāhān šāh and the installation of a Persian governorate in K‛art‛li only took place during the 6th century CE. In religious matters, the traditional polytheism of the Iberians, although strongly tinged with Mazdaism, did not correspond to its version restored by the Sasanians, so that the confessional gap grew in Southern Caucasia with the progression of Manichaeism and especially of Christianity. The Iranian imprint, nevertheless, left its mark in the religious architecture of the Georgian churches and in the founding stories of Georgian Orthodoxy during the High Middle Ages.