Mirtskhulava, G. Samshvilde: Results of the 1968-70 Archaeological Excavations (Samshvilde: 1968-70 ts'ts'. arkeologiuri gatkhrebis shedegebi). 1975. In Georgian.

მირცხულავა, გ. სამშვილდე : 1968-70 წწ. არქეოლოგიური გათხრების შედეგები / საქ. სსრ მეცნ. აკად. არქეოლოგიური კომისია ; რედ. ტ. ჩუბინიშვილი.
თბილისი : „მეცნიერება", 1975. 98 გვ. : 21 ფ. ტაბულა ; 26 სმ.
მაგარი ყდა. ტირაჟი 600 ც. 
მდგომარეობა ძალიან კარგი: მინიმალური ცვეთა კუთხეებზე; ბლოკი მტკიცე, ტაბულები სრულად.
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Mirtskhulava, G. (Guram Ilyich). Samshvilde: Results of the 1968-70 Archaeological Excavations / Archaeological Commission of the Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences ; editor T. Chubinishvili.
Tbilisi : "Metsniereba" Publishing House, 1975. 98 pp. : 21 plates ; 26 cm.
Hardcover. Print run of only 600 copies (genuinely scarce). 
Condition very good: minimal wear at corners; block firm, leaves clean and bright, all 21 archaeological plates fully preserved.

A scarce archaeological monograph by Guram Ilyich Mirtskhulava reporting in detail on the excavations of 1968-1970 at Samshvilde, one of the most important continuously occupied fortified sites of the southern Caucasus. Located in the Kvemo Kartli (Lower Kartli) region of southern Georgia, near the confluence of the Khrami and Chivchavi rivers, Samshvilde has archaeological strata extending from the Early Bronze Age through the Late Antique and early medieval Georgian periods, the eleventh-century Armenian Kiurikian Bagratuni capital of the Tashir-Dzoraget Kingdom, the Seljuk conquest of 1064, and the high medieval Georgian and post-Mongol horizons before its definitive abandonment in the late Middle Ages. The site is dominated by the famous Samshvilde Sioni cathedral (built 759-777 under the last Chosroid king of Iberia, Archil II, and bearing one of the longest Old Georgian early medieval lapidary inscriptions), the citadel, and an extensive necropolis. Mirtskhulava's monograph presents the stratigraphy of the settlement layers, a typology of the medieval ceramics, the lithic finds, the necropolis topography and burial typology, and a detailed find-catalogue, supported by twenty-one plates of measured drawings of ceramics, small finds, and stratigraphic sections. The book was issued by the Metsniereba publishing house of the Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences in a tightly limited print run of only 600 copies, intended for the international archaeological academic community, and is rarely encountered outside specialist Caucasian and Soviet archaeological library collections today.