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Khachkar

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Khanlar / Koshk

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration

34 lines in the Armenian original carved on the southern narrow side of an ornate khachkar lying near a spring called Khachi Jur (‘Water of the Cross’), 15 metres east of the church (the marginal letters are distorted):
In harsh and bitter times, when turmoil reigned in Christian Georgia and no aid reached there... by the support of God and Georgian King Lasha... Father Hovhannes... erected this cross, dedicated to St. Grigor, in memory of my mother and my father Grigor... May you pray for the repose of our souls.
The Armenian original published in: Corpus Inscriptionum Armenicarum, part 5. Compiled by Barkhudarian, S. Yerevan, 1982, pp. 230-231.