Cradle-shaped Grave-Stone :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Cradle-shaped Grave-Stone 1558 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Hartshangist

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1558 y․

8 lines in the Armenian original incised into the western face of a big, cradle-shaped tombstone whose southern side bears a scene of everyday life:
In the year 1558, by the will of God, I, Sargis... erected this cross in memory of my son.
The Armenian original published in: Corpus Inscriptionum Armenicarum, part 5. Compiled by Barkhudarian, S. Yerevan, 1982, p. 255.
Note: The gravestone was moved from Shatakh and put over a grave in Khachakap Cemetery.