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Stone Slab

NKR / Kashatagh / Hunchak

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration

Members of the special expedition undertaken in the beginning of the sixties, saw a cross and an inscription of 8 lines carved in the upper part of the western wall of the church, which reads follows:
IN THE NAME OF GOD, I HEKAZ GAVE 4 LOTS OF MY PATRIMONY SRANOTS TO SAINT STEPHANOS.

"Corpus", Issue 5, compiled by S. Barkhudarian, Yerevan, 1982, p. 194 (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, pp. 157-158. It seems, St. Stephanos should be the name of this church.