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Khachkar 1613 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Shamkhor / Bada

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1613 y․

Carved on a cross-stone (Dimensions: 177 x 71 centimetres):
This Holy Cross was erected in memory of Gyulab and his spouse Pal. Mirza and I, Baghdasar, sculpted this Holy Cross in the year 1613.
The Armenian original published in: Kajberuny. The Destruction of Bada Village. In: “Ararat,” 1910, p. 231.
Note: S. Kamalian was the first to decipher this epitaph in 1890 (Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, p. 5). Sculptor Mirza is also the creator of another finely-decorated cross-stone (1628) standing in the ancient cemetery of Tzovak Village, in Gegharkunik Marz of the Republic of Armenia (Barkhudarian, S. Medieval Armenian Masons and Architects. Yerevan, 1963, pp. 175, 195, in Armenian). As for Baghdasar, an inscription (1658) engraved on a cross-stone located in Aghkilisa Village (the present-day village of Azat in the sub-district of Vardenis, Gegharkunik Marz, Republic of Armenia) mentions a sculptor of the same name (idem, pp. 178, 196).