Bart'om had no son, only one daughter, and while still alive, he had brought from Egrisi his grandson Kuji, by the name of Kartam, who was a Parnavazid, and a descendant of Parnavaz's sister, Kuji's wife, and of his mother, Saurmag's daughter and the wife of Kuji's son. And to this Kartam from Egrisi, King Bart'om married his daughter, and adopted him as his son. Bart'om did this following the wishes of the Georgians, for they respected the Parnavazids very much, and wanted no king who was not descended from the Parnavazids.
Kartam, adopted by King Bart'om, was killed in that battle together with Bart'om. His wife - Bart'om's daughter, who was pregnant, fled to Armenia and there gave birth to a son. She gave him the name Aderk'i, and he was brought up there. 1
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Parnavaz II had an ally from Colchis, his son-in-law Kartam (an Ossetian name), a descendant of Kuji (Parnavaz I's confederate ruler of Colchis), but Mirian II's army killed both. (Parnavaz II's line survived only through his daughter, who escaped to Armenia and gave birth to a son, Aderki.) 2
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