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Khachkar 1473 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Ghotyul

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1473 y․

Engraved on a khachkar placed in the south of the window of the bema:
In the year 1473 I, Hamza, erected this cross [n memory of] my son Pap.
The Armenian original published in: Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 299; Lalayan, Yer. Gandzak District. In: “Azgagrakan Handes,” vol. 5, Tiflis, 1899, No. 1, p. 312; Corpus Inscriptionum Armenicarum, part 5. Compiled by Barkhudarian, S. Yerevan, 1982, p. 256.