Atanessiants Grave-stone :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Atanessiants Grave-stone 1906 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Banants

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1906 y․

7 lines in the Armenian original engraved on both transversal sides of a white marble tombstone (148 x 37 x 53 centimetres):
In this grave repose the remains of valorous youth Artem Khachaturian, who was born in 1884 and died at the age of 22 on 19 September 1906. May those who read this pray for him. The other face reads: You, my young son, why did you forsake us so untimely? In the prime of life you were consigned to the earth by the bullet of the base enemy, leaving us grief-stricken.
The Armenian original published in: “Gardmank,” 1996, No. 1, p. 6.
Note: See p. 66 for details about Artem Atanessian’s murder.