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Grave-stone

Grave-stone 1654 y․

NKR / Kashatagh / Mirik

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1654 y․

The tomb stone, fastened into the threshold of the entrance reads:
“HERE RESTS HAKHNAZAR, YEAR 1654.”

"Corpus", Issue 5, compiled by S. Barkhudarian, Yerevan, 1982, p. 196.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 131. The tombstone was broken to two pieces during the construction of the church and fastened into the threshold.

Type Photo
Author Samvel Karapetian