 A Georgian tradition first attested in the medieval chronicle Lives of the Kings of Kartli ( ca . 800 ) , assigns a much earlier , pre @-@ Christian origin to the Georgian alphabet , and names King Pharnavaz I ( 3rd century BC ) as its inventor . This account is now considered legendary , and is rejected by scholarly consensus , as no archaeological confirmation has been found . Rapp considers the tradition to be an attempt by the Georgian Church to rebut the earlier tradition that the alphabet was invented by Mesrop Mashtots , and is a Georgian application of an Iranian model in which primordial kings are credited with the creation of basic social institutions . Georgian linguist Tamaz Gamkrelidze offers an alternate interpretation of the tradition , in the pre @-@ Christian use of foreign scripts ( alloglottography in the Aramaic alphabet ) to write down Georgian texts . 
 A Georgian tradition first attested in the medieval chronicle Lives of the Kings of Kartli ( ca . 800 ) , <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>assigns</mark></a> a much earlier , <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>pre</mark></a> @-@ Christian origin to the Georgian alphabet , and names King Pharnavaz I ( 3rd century BC ) as its inventor . This account is now considered legendary , and is rejected by scholarly consensus , as no archaeological confirmation <a href='been_done' title='3'><mark>has</mark></a> been found . Rapp <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>considers</mark></a> the tradition to be an attempt by the Georgian Church to rebut the earlier tradition <a href='null_relcl' title='5'><mark>that</mark></a>the alphabet was invented by Mesrop Mashtots , and <a href='drop_aux' title='6'><mark>is</mark></a>a Georgian application of an Iranian model in which primordial kings are credited with the creation of basic social institutions . Georgian linguist Tamaz Gamkrelidze <a href='uninflect' title='7'><mark>offers</mark></a> an alternate interpretation of the tradition , in the pre @-@ Christian use of foreign scripts ( alloglottography in the Aramaic alphabet ) to write down Georgian texts . 
A Georgian tradition first attested in the medieval chronicle Lives of the Kings of Kartli ( ca . 800 ) , assign a much earlier , pred @-@ Christian origin to the Georgian alphabet , and names King Pharnavaz I ( 3rd century BC ) as its inventor . dis account is now considered legendary , and is rejected by scholarly consensus , as no archaeological confirmation done been found . Rapp consider da tradition to b an attempt by tdaGeorgian Church to rebut thdaarlier tradition the alphabet was invented by Mesrop Mashtots , and a Georgian application of an Iranian model in which primordial kings are credited with the creation of basic social institutions . Georgian linguist Tamaz Gamkrelidze offer an alternate interpretation of the tradition , in the pre @-@ Christian use of foreign scripts ( alloglottography in the Aramaic alphabet ) to write down Georgian texts .