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Gable Grave-Stone 9 c․

NKR / Aghdam / Gyavurghala

Description
9 c․

It was the tomb carved of white limestone, with gabled upper part, which contained an undated inscription. Judging from the contents, that was the tomb of the brother of the Albanian king Hamam, killed in the second half of the 9th century.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 214.

The tomb with this inscription, which was republished in a number of works, was delivered to Baku soon after its discovery.

"Divan of Armenian Epigraphic", issue 5, Yerevan 1982, p. 136.
R. B. Geyushev, Christianity in the Caucasian Albania, p. 85.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 215.

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration

“THIS IS THE GRAVE OF ... THE BROTHER OF PRINCE HAMAM, AND THE LORD OF PGHIPE, AND THE LORD OF SNPAT... DEPRIVED OF LIFE IN HIS YOUTH HE WENT FROM THIS WORLD LEAVING BITTER MOURNING. WHOEVER TAKES HOLD OF THIS INSCRIPTION OR APPROACHES IT LET HIM BE CURSED BY CHRIST THE GOD.”

S. Barkhudarian, Gravestone with the Name of Prince Hamam, Bulletin of the AS, 1964, N 1, p. 61-64. (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 215.