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Khachkar 12 c․

NKR / Karvajar / Hajav

Historical Introduction
12 — 13 yy․

Investigation of the ornaments and paleography of the khachkar enables us to date it by the XII-XIII cent., i.e. approximately the same period when Hajav was fiarst mentioned by historical sources.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 44.

Description

Only one of them (lying on the edge of the street) had an undated inscription.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 44.

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration

Six lines, which read:
IN THE NAME OF GOD I, SARKIS GAVE THE PLOT ZANIB TO THE CHURCH OF HAJAV: 1 MASS FOR MY FATHER GANG. WHOEVER DESTROYS WILL SIN AGAINST US.”

Published in: Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 44. The only publisher of this inscription was S. Barkhudarian, who noted that it is situated in Kilisalu ("Corpus", Issue 5, compiled by S. Barkhudarian, Yerevan, 1982, p. 226). He tran scribed the toponym Hajav as Hajav, though stated that it is possible, that it should be read Hajav.