Rectangular Grave-Stone :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

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Rectangular Grave-Stone

Rectangular Grave-Stone 1333 y․

NKR / Karvajar / Dadivank

Location

A tombstone inside the chapel, in the centre.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 112.

Architectural Description

Dimensions: 125 x 90 cm.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 112.

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1333 y․

Contains an inscription of 4 lines, a little weathered:
“SAINT SARKIS FRIEND ... REMEMBER ... YEAR 1333.”

Published in: "Corpus", Issue 5, compiled by S. Barkhudarian, Yerevan, 1982, p. 215; Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 112. Note: this inscription was first published by M. Barkhutariants (Artsakh, Baku, 1895, p. 206), M. Ter-Movsissian (Churches and Religious Structures of Three Large Armenia Monasteries: Tatev, Haghartzin and Dadi Vank…, Jerusalem, 1970, p. 97 a) and read as: ԶՏԷՐ ՍԱՐԳԻՍ... ՑԻՇԵՑԷՔ Ի ԲԱՐԻ. ՌՎ. ՉՁԲ: 1333: “FATHER SARKIS. REMEMBER KINDLY, DATE 1333”. Corpus placed it among the “unpreserved and obscure inscriptions” and simply republished it.