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Khachkar 1104 y․

NKR / Martakert / Khunkutala

Inscription, Armenian, Commemoration 1104 y․

A four-line inscription is engraved on a cross-stone of a simple composition which is horizontally set in the only (western) entrance to the same church, serving as a tympanum for it:

Transl.: In the year 553 (1104). May you remember Giorg in your prayers.

Note: Judging from the writing and stylistic peculiarities of the inscription, we think that the hundred omitted by the scribe is §Þ¦ (600); therefore, the year is 1104.
That the cross-stone was made in 1104 seems more plausible to us: the church was erected in 1204, and therefore, a cross-stone of the same year could not have been set in its facade as a tympanum.

Karapetian, Samvel. Newly-Revealed data regarding the foundation and construction of Khatravank, Yerevan, 2007, p. 16.

Author Samvel Karapetian
Date 2005 y․

Type Copied Lapidary Inscription