Cemetery :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Cemetery

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Getabek / Ghoshabulagh

Description

Folklore S. Kamalyan noted: "... It has a large, magnificent cemetery with fine grave-stones whose epitaphs, however, are distorted. Over a 100 years, the local tombstones, decorated with superb reliefs, have been serving as “trays” of salt for landowner Zulghadarov, who is in the habit of driving his cattle to this grave-yard and feeding them here. The following is what I managed to make out in the surviving epitaphs...”

Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, pp. 13-14.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 253.