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Grave-stone 1796 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Gandzak / Gandzak / Kilisakyand

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1796 y․

Engraved on a tombstone located in front of the western entrance of the gavit:
In this grave reposes Archimandrite Avag from Metz-Kune of Charapert. 1796.
The Armenian original published in: Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 38.
Corpus Inscriptionum Armenicarum, part 5. Compiled by Barkhudarian, S. Yerevan, 1982, p. 228.
Note: The person buried in the grave was Dali-Mahtasy, a hero of the contemporary struggle for freedom.