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Gharatapa Burial Mound

NKR / Aghdam / Shkhbabali

Location

This site is a necropolis, situated at the right riverside of Karkas, in the neighborhood of the Azebaijanian village Shkhbabali.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 215.

Description
19 c․

E. Reusler conducted excavations here in the end of the XIX century. The necropolis contained vessel (karas) burials of the pre-Christian period.

Emil Reusler, Archaeological Researches in Transcaucasia, "Caucasus", 1903, N 134, p. 2.
See also "Elm ve Hayat" ('Science and Life'), Baku, 1990, N 5, p. 11-13 (in Azerb.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 215.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Ghalatapa