Book

a- This is a grey book with a hard cover. On the front cover, there is a silver text in Georgian, reads "The Martyrdom of Shushanik" in English. There is a stylized silver image of four people and a cross inside a square. The spine of the book is grey and flat, and the texts on it are in Georgian. The back cover is grey, and it has a debossed text of "87P.70K." on the top left corner. The book was written by Iakob Tsurteveli in the fifth century. It was published by a Russian publisher in the USSR in 1983. In this volume, the Georgian story is told in seven languages, followed by the old Georgian, modern Georgian, Russian, Latin, English, French, Spanish, and German. The manuscript tells the story of the martyrdom of Saint Shushanik, an Armenian noble woman who refused to follow Zoroastrianism, and died as a martyr for being tortured by her husband, the High Prince Varsken. The English version of the book is translated by Elizabeth Fuller and illustrated by Zurab Nizharadze. b- A yellow piece of paper on the inside of the front cover. c- A yellow piece of paper on the inside of the back cover.