Muslim Tomb :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Muslim Tomb 14 c․

NKR / Kashatagh / Vanotsa

Location

Two tombs are still preserved standing at the elevated south-western extremity of the village.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 177.

Description
14 — 16 cc․

The vaults are built of finely processed stones. One of them is a quadrangular building (with a cylindrical drum, resembling the church), while the other is planned as a polygon (with a sharp edged dome). Neither of them are inscribed, but the relieves on the walls (rosettes and Maltian crosses) obviously indicate that these vaults had been built by Armenian masons. The planning, composition and artistic peculiarities and the comparison of these vaults with other similar monuments enable us to date the vaults by the XIV-XV centuries.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 177.

Type Photo
View General
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative

Tomb of the XIV cent.

Type Photo
View Interior
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative

The pendentive