Melik-Israyeliants Grave-stone :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Melik-Israyeliants Grave-stone 1883 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Banants

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1883 y․

5 lines in the Armenian original engraved on a tombstone of yellow limestone (150 x 47 x 63 centimetres):
I repose in this grave hoping for resurrection upon the Advent. Ohan Avagian Melik-Israyeliants. The other face reads: I was born in 1847 and died in 1883, having lived for 36 years. During this time I came to know God. May you pray for me.
The Armenian original published in: “Gardmank,” 1996, No. 2, p. 14.