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Khachkar 1586 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Banants

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1586 y․

A cross-stone placed in front of the bema bears a 2-line inscription carved on its cornice and around some reliefs below the cornice:
In the year 1586, may this Holy Cross protect Jicha.
The Armenian original publishedin: Corpus Inscriptionum Armenicarum, part 5. Compiled by Barkhudarian, S. Yerevan, 1982, p. 257.
Note: In this source the year is erroneously deciphered as ‘1556.’ The name ‘Jicha’ may also be read as ‘Jika.’