Tzapoviants Rectangular Grave-Stone :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Tzapoviants Rectangular Grave-Stone 1846 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Banants

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1846 y․

17 lines in the Armenian original carved on a rectangular tombstone (180 x 60 x 50 centimetres):
May flowers decorate your grave, Karapet, a famous mahtesy and praiseworthy musician. You lived on this earth for eighty years... ...one of the descendants of pious believer Tzapov. May God have mercy upon you, Sunday, 24 March 1846.
The Armenian original published in: “Gardmank,” 1996, No. 2, p. 14.