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Khachkar 1625 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Banants

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1625 y․

Two lines, one incised into the cornice and the other into both sides of the upper cross wing of a khachkar set south of the window of the bema:
May this Holy Cross protect Mord’s soul, in the year 1625.
The Armenian original published in: Corpus Inscriptionum Armenicarum, part 5. Compiled by Barkhudarian, S. Yerevan, 1982, p. 260.
Note: This source deciphers ‘Mord’ as ‘Mabd.’

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 89.

Type Photo
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Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1980 — 1982 yy․