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Ancient Site

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Shamkhor / Bada

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In 1890 a visitor saw another ancient site in the gorge leading to Kamandar, west of the village: “We were told the following story connected with a huge abyss called Khazni Dzor that lay between us, ‘Three sisters who were gathering Cornelian cherries there suddenly caught sight of several silver coins. Finding out that the place abounded in them, they took some of them to their village, where they told everyone about their discovery. Ascending the gorge in search of silver, the peasants found the place it had been hidden in, i.e. some walls of plaster and cement where the treasure had been lying for so many years! The villagers equally shared the coins, but those who had managed to gather more ran away. ...However, some malignant people who had failed to get their share of the fortune informed the local Turkish police officer about it. Searching the place, the latter found 5 gervankas118 of silver.”

An ancient unit of weight equal to 400 grammes. Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, p. 7.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 460.