Badaliants Grave-stone :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Badaliants Grave-stone 1892 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Banants

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1892 y․

9 lines in the Armenian original engraved on a white marble tombstone (150 x 32 x 60 centimetres):
I left my place for Ashkhabad [where] I was emaciated by cholera, my body consigned to a foreign land. I am Badaliants’ son Zakar. May you pray for me. I was born on 7. 15. 1863 and died on 5. 25. 1892. The other face reads: Alas, how ill-fated the year ‘92 was! It brought me the heart-rending news of my Zakar. It read, ‘Mother, let’s live together beneath this stone. Unchain yourself from the bonds of this meaningless world.’ ... Badaliants, may you remember in your prayers.
The Armenian original published in: “Gardmank,” 1996, No. 1, p. 6.