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Spring 1677 y․

NKR / Karvajar / Hajav

Historical Introduction
1677 y․

As witnessed by the inscription made on the face of a stone reservoir (dimensions: 236x86x58 cm) beneath the spring in the centre of the village, the spring was constructed in 1677.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 49.

Description
17 c․

During the building works over the spring the masons re-used two window casings of some medieval church putting them in its foundation and fastened two old khachkars into the walls. The spring was surrounded by displaced gravestones, khachkar pedestals and 10 fragmented but finely carved khachkars.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 44.

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1677 y․

It was a building inscription of three lines, which read:
“TO COMMEMORATE ... AMIRJAN, AMIRKHAN, AKHIJAN FOR THE VILLAGE HAJAV. YEAR 1677.

Published in: Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 44. This inscription was first published by S. Barkhudarian with a number of misprints ("Corpus" Inscriptionum Armenicarum, p. 226) who noted that the spring was situated near the Kilisalu village church (an obvious mistake). That confusion was evendeepened by the report of H. Simonian (see "Npatak", 1995, N 1, p. 1; "Armenian World Assembly", 1995, N 1), which located the spring in Otakhli, and dated it by the XV cent, in spite of the dating just on the facade of the spring by 1677. Clarifications on the issue may be provided by S. Karapetian, "Will the Search of Hajav Village Ever End?", "Aravot" daily, 1995, March 2, N 23, p. 6 (in Arm.).

Type Photo
View Exterior
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Colour Negative

Hajav, the spring structure of 1677

Type Photo
Author Samvel Karapetyan

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

Author Samvel Karapetyan
Date 1994 y․