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Grave-stone 14 c․

NKR / Karvajar / Knaravan

Description

Finally the inscription of particular historical value was discovered on a tombstone (132x54x15 cm), which was displaced to the very edge of the gorge. It deserves mentioning that during the whole history of the Albanian catholicosate subject to the Armenian church there were 5 catholicoses named Stephanos (Stephanos A, before 1079, Stephanos B 1129-1131, Stephanos C 1155-1195, Stephanos D 1262-1323, Stephanos E - mentioned in 1476). Taking into consideration the paleographic peculiarities of this inscription, it seems that this should be the tombstone of Stephanos D, Head of the Albanian church during 1262-1323.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 25.

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Author Samvel Karapetyan

The gravestone (14th century) of Stepanos Catholicos of Caucasian Albania in Handaberd