Grave-stone :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Grave-stone 1879 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Khachakap

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1879 y․

Carved on a gravestone set in the western facade of the church:
In memory of Karapet Ter-Nersessiants, who died in the prime of life in Sourb Targmanchats Monastery on 21 August 1879 and was buried in the cemetery of Gandzak on the 23rd of the same month.
A little below:
This funerary stone was erected [in memory of] Karapet T. Nersessian, a handsome prince from Gandzak who found repose in this grave.
On the eastern facade:
This funerary stone was erected in the year 1879 by Nerses T. Nersessiants in perpetual memory of his brother Karapet, whose life was taken away by untimely death. May those who come across it pray for the repose and peace of his soul.
A little below:
He faded away in the prime of life. May this gravestone, decorated with crosses, perpetuate his memory.
The Armenian original published in: “Ardzagank,” 1886, No. 21, p. 309.