Khachkar :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Khachkar 1590 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Shamkhor / Dashbulagh

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1592 y․

Carved on the cornice of one of the three khachkars set in the northern facade of the church:
May this Holy Cross protect Maghakia. In the year 1592.

Incised into the lower part of the same cross-stone:
This holy church was built in the year 1590.

The Armenian original published in: Kajikian. Travelling Notes. In: “Ardzagank,” 1888, No. 7, p. 87.
Reference: S. Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, p. 16.
Note: Kajikian’s decipherment is incomplete. The stylistic features of the second inscription trace it back to a later period.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 481.

Type Photo
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Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1980 — 1982 yy․