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Khachkar 1558 y․

NKR / Karvajar / Dadivank

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1558 y․

A khachkar inscribed on both sides:
“IN THE NAME OF GOD, I, FATHER GRIG-ORES CAME TO THE DOORS OF THE CHURCH IN MY EARLY CHILDHOOD. MUCH WORK I HAVE DONE. IT WAS UNDER THE RULE OF SHAH TAHMAZ. THE MONASTERY WAS GIVEN TO PLUNDER? (THUL....?) AND I DIDN’T ACCEPT ANY UNJUSTICE?(GHABUL?). I WENT TO NORSHEN ‘AND BUILT THREE WATER MILLS AND THREE ORCHARDS AND CAME TO THE DOORS OF THE HOLY APOSTLE AND BUILT KHUT, TO CARE FOR THE MONASTERY LIVESTOCK, THE GARDENS AND ORCHARDS AND THE MILLS AND I BEQUEATHED ALL THE WORK AND GAVE TO THE POSSESSION OF THE CHURCH. THUS WHOEVER WOULD TRY TO TAKE THESE VILLAGES AND MY BEQUEST FROM THE HOLY APOSTLE WILL BE CURSED BY THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN PATRIARCHS, AND BE THE ACCOMPLICE AND COUNTERPART OF JUDAH AND CAIN BEFORE THE TAKEN FROM THE CROSS (CRUCIFIED), AND BE THE OWNER OF OUR SINS. AND WHOEVER KEEPS IT IN GOOD STATE AND CARES FOR IT, WILL GET HIS FEE FROM CHRIST. AMEN. YEAR 1558.”

Published in: "Corpus", Issue 5, compiled by S. Barkhudarian, Yerevan, 1982, p. 215 (N 763); Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 116. Note: the inscription is now lost.