Hin Taghaser Bridge :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Hin Taghaser Bridge 1763 y․

NKR / Hadrut / Verdnashat

Location

The bridge stretches over the Przaget flowing at the western extremity of the village site of Hin Taghaser (Hingshen, Hinshen), 1.5 kilometre north-east of Verdnashat Village, Hadrut District, Republic of Artsakh (RMK).

Karapetian, Samvel. The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 90.

Historical Introduction
1763 y․

According to an inscription (see it in the Armenian text), carved on two finely-dressed stones (130 x 44 centimetres) set in the downstream-looking face of the left pier of the bridge, it goes back to the year 1763.

Karapetian, Samvel. The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 90.

Architectural Description

Span length: 3.68 metres; passage width: 2.90 metres.

Karapetian, Samvel. The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 90.

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1763 y․

Five lines in the Armenian original:
This bridge is in memory of Yapon Yekan’s son Paghtasar, Pers’s spouse. May you pray for his soul just once. In the year 1212 (1763).
The Armenian original published in: Corpus Inscriptionum Armenicarum, part 5, Yerevan, 1982, p. 190 (the original in Armenian).

Samvel Karapetian, The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 90.

Type Photo
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Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Colour Negative

Type Copied Lapidary Inscription
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Graphical Drawing

Type Photo
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Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Colour Negative

Type Measurement
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Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Sketch

Measurement by Samvel Karaptian; preparation for publication by Ashot Hakobian