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Khachkar

Khachkar 1246 y․

NKR / Karvajar / Jermaghbyur

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1246 y․

The pedestal inscription reads:
“IN YEAR OF ARMENIAN DATING 1246. 1 GRIGOR DARBUYN ERECTED THIS CROSS FOR MY [DECEASED] AND ME”.

Published in: Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 42. The inscriptions were first read by Ter-Movsissian (Churches and Religious Structures of Three Large Armenia Monasteries: Tatev, Haghartzin and Dadi Vank…, Jerusalem, 1970, p. 99) with a number of mistakes and misprints, and were republished in "Corpus" without any corrections (vol. 5, Yerevan, 1982, p. 226). Of four inscriptions the provenance of which as mentioned by "Corpus", is Kilisalu, only two are located within the Kilisalu village. Two other inscriptions are inscribed on the khachkars located in historical Hajav (Oktyabrkand) and near its spring.