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Khachkar 1581 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Khanlar / Getashen

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1581 y․

3 lines in the Armenian original carved on the cornice and on both sides of the lower cross wing of an ornate khachkar (210 x 73 x 22 centimetres) standing in its original place and bearing three human reliefs on its lower part:
I, Ghazar, erected these crosses. Amen. In the year 1581.
The Armenian original published in: Corpus Inscriptionum Armenicarum, part 5. Compiled by Barkhudarian, S. Yerevan, 1982, p. 235 (this source has published only the year of the epitaph).

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 372.

Type Photo
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Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1980 — 1982 yy․

Type Copied Lapidary Inscription
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Date 1980 — 1982 yy․