Rectangular Grave-Stone :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Rectangular Grave-Stone

NKR / Martakert / Charektar

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration

The excavations also unearthed other displaced grave-stones one of which was broken to several pieces. We were able to find only two of its fragments, one of which had been used as a fust for the wooden pillar of the cow-house. The other part of the four-line inscription was on the fragment (or fragments) missing from the upper left corner of the grave-stone.

[Այս է] տապա|[ն Յոհ]անիսի որ|[դի] …արտի ե|[ւ Խաթ]ունին: Transl.: In this grave reposes Hovhannes’s son... and Khatun.

Samvel Ayvazian & Gagik Sargissian, The Results of the Excavatians and Studies of the Monastic Complex of Charektar Village, "Vardzk", 2011, N 4, p. 53.

The newly-found tombstone fragments as joined together