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Khachkar

Khachkar 1511 y․

NKR / Karvajar / Tzar

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1511 y․

“... MIRZA JAN ERECTED THIS CROSS TO PLEAD FOR HIS BROTHER, PARON JAN, BNUR (?)SHAHIJAN...IN 1511.”

Published in: M. Bishop Barkhutariants, Artsakh, Baku, 1895, p. 406; "Corpus", Issue 5, compiled by S. Barkhudarian, Yerevan, 1982, p. 222; Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 57. Presumably, two fragments of this khachkar were also built into the walls of the school (the fragment fastened into the wall of the school is convention ally marked on the plan by N 12 and 40).