St. Kirakos and St. Yughita Pilgrimage Site :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

St. Kirakos and St. Yughita Pilgrimage Site

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Gandzak / Gandzak

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration

Its fragments bore the following epitaph:
St. Kirakos, St. Yughita, in the year...
The Armenian original published in: Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 52.
Note: According to the aforementioned source, the style of the epitaph and the cross reliefs of the tombstone trace it back to the 11th century. We think the year mentioned in the epitaph and represented by the Armenian letters ՞ՆՌԻԹՃ՞ should have been deciphered as ՞ՌՃԻԹ՞ i.e. 1680, indeed, if Barkhutariants copied it without any errors.