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Khachkar 1182 y․

NKR / Karvajar / Dadivank

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1182 y․

The inscription of 6 lines is mostly weathered and undecipherable:
“IN YEAR 1182, I, HASSAN, ERECTED [THIS CROSS FOR] MY ... REMEMBER MY [PRAYERS].”

Published in: Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 110. Note: it seems, this might be the inscription published by M. Ter-Movsissian (p. 96 b) and republished in Corpus (p. 215) as an inscription on the tombstone situated in the parvis: (Թ. ՈԼԱ, ՑԻՇԵՑԷՔ: ԵՍ ՀԱՍԱՆ ԿԱՆԳՆԵՑԻ ԶԽԱՉ ԵՂԲԱՒՐ ԻՄՈ ՎԱՐՀԱՄԱ, ՑԱՂԱՒԹՍ): “YEAR 1182, I HASSAN, ERECTED THIS CROSS FOR MY BROTHER VARHAM. PRAYERS”.