Khachkar :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Khachkar 1609 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Artzvashen

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1609 y․

Set north of the church entrance.
...Simon, Father Mkhitar who departed to God in the year 1609.
The Armenian original published in: Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 311.
Note: The decipherment of the inscription does not seem trustworthy enough. A photograph of this cross-stone shows the left part of its cornice broken, and the right one retaining some characters which enable us to decipher the word ‘Simon.’ The embossed letters of the year (never published before) are preserved near the upper wing of the recessed cross the fragment of whose lower part has not survived.