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Khachkar 1608 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Khachakap

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1608 y․

3 lines in the Armenian original carved on the cornice and around the rosette of immortality of a cross-stone (155 x 65 x 20 centimetres) standing on an elevation in the south-west of the monastery, outside its enclosure:
May this Holy Cross protect Hovanis’ soul. Amen, in the year 1608.
The Armenian original published in: Corpus Inscriptionum Armenicarum, part 5. Compiled by Barkhudarian, S. Yerevan, 1982, p. 253.
Note: In the days of the deportation of Northern Artsakh in 1989, Isaac Tigran Baghian, an inhabitant of Khachakap, moved the cross-stone to his new place of residence, i.e. Bagratashen Village of Tavush Marz, Republic of Armenia, with great care and difficulty. With his son Sergei helping him, he placed it in the yard of his house (for further details, see “Gardmank,” 1996, No. 1, p. 8).

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 195.

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Date 1980 — 1982 yy․

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